Quotes About Self-worth

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life.

I guess you Da Man now, Filthy, JB says. And for the first time in my life I don't want to be. I bet the dishes you miss number fifty, he says, walking away. Where's he going? Hey, I shout. We Da Man. And when he turns around I toss him the ball. He dribbles back to the top of the key, fixes his eyes on the goal. I watch the ball leave his hands like a bird up high, skating the sky, crossing over us.

Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and oneself.

Recognition of his own value, by himself and others, was of paramount importance to the car-hire driver.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

The desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.

The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.

We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.

What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses.

Even without the deadly specter of anorexia, the skin-and-bones look, critics say, underlines the idea that thinness is a principal yardstick of a woman's worth.

As a rule, models are unfamiliar with what the word eating means to most people.

Somehow I had also convinced myself that my redemption could only come from some force outside of me-that if I were useful to others, they would save me. What a terrible thing to believe. I had to stop playing a part in my own misery. I had to save my own life.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt.

Am I the only non-idiot on the planet?" "Yes, Morgan Toth, you are," Gabriel piped up. "Will you be our king?

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

How people loved to see a dream shatter, thought Nova from far away. To see the dreamer hobbled and lamed, foundering in the shards of their broken hopes. This is what you get for believing that you could have more. You're no better than us. You're nothing special.

How people love to see a dream shatter, thought Nova from far away. To see the dreamer hobbled and lamed, foundering in the shards of their broken hopes. This is what you get for believing that you could have more. You're no better than us. You're nothing special.

She was the goddess of... herself.

You don't have to be ashamed »

The future was blind, but she couldn't feel, truly, that it would be better without her in it.