Quotes About Self-worth

He had lost much that was dear to him, yet fate had given him rare and great gifts; for the first time, he was proud of simply who he was

do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

Don't let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

She leaned her head to one side of the pillow to meet her son's eyes. Never give into them, she whispered. No matter what they do or how important you feel it is to get their acceptance. Never kill part of yourself for them. Because other people will notice that part is missing before you do.

However, little by little, I am coming to the view that what I mistook for humility was, in fact, an accurate evaluation of your worth.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped.

Now why [...] should I worry about what people say when my own father call me a whore?

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

A avea un duÈ™man e important nu numai pentru a ne defini identitatea, ci È™i pentru a ne procura un obstacol în raport cu care s? ne evalu?m sistemul de valori È™i s? ne ar?t?m, înfruntându-l, propria valoare. De aceea, atunci când duÈ™manul nu exist?, el trebuie construit.

Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.

For the first time in his life he began to experience a kind of true pride. He felt himself, so to speak, taking up space when he walked in the streets; and he wondered whether this was how other people felt all the time, without effort, all the secure people he met in London and Africa.

You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.

You respect yourself, it makes it harder for others to disrespect you.

Two old women. They complain, never satisfied. We talk of no food, and of how good it was in our days when it really was no better. We think that we are so old. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

One must get used to speaking of one's virtues bravely, to people's faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to what degree we are good?

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Le suprême bonheur de la vie, c'est la conviction qu'on est aimé; aimé pour soi-même, disons mieux, aimé malgré soi-même.

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

I never realized my ugliness till now. When I compared myself with you, I pity myself indeed, poor unhappy monster that I am! I must seem to you like some awful beast, eh? You,-you are a sunbeam, a drop of dew, a bird's song! As for me, I am something frightful, neither man nor beast,- a nondescript object, more hard, shapeless, and more trodden under foot than a pebble!

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

La suprema dicha de la vida, es la convicción de que se es amado; amado por sí mismo, digamos mejor, ama¬do a pesar de sí mismo.

C'è gente che pagherebbe per vendersi.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.