Quotes About Self-worth

For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don't take themselves seriously, someone else will.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right—but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self worth defending.

What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.

As Vita Sackville-West wrote: I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

Don't worry, honey," she said to me comfortingly, "it's important for someone who could play the game—and win—to say: 'The game isn't worth shit.'

Needing approval is a female cultural disease

I began to understand that self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Everytime a woman looks in a mirror and criticizes her body, a girl is watching.

The idea that women are "our own worst enemies" forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted to. When

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

self esteem isn't everything. it's just that there's nothing without it

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

lack of self-confidence, a feeling of being unsuited to power, is the emotional training that helps to keep any less-than-equal group in its place.

I've never let myself dwell on what other people think of me......You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over it? better to concentrate on more important things.

without a deep understanding that our significance comes from being loved and accepted by God exactly as we are, upside-down priorities will dominate our lives.

I'm learning that I don't have to prove myself. And despite my superwoman complex, which got me into all kinds of situations, I'm not able to do all things.

First, you need to realize that you are great, then live up to that without caring about anything else.

We can be absolved for falling for what we found in place but not for failing to rise up for what we deserve.

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.