Quotes About Self-worth

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say?

One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise? 

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, I'm good at this. Improper pride says, I'm better than you.

Circumstance does not make the man;

There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.

Rejection—and the fear of rejection—is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

We rob ourselves of our joy and happiness when we stop and check in with what everyone else is thinking and saying about us.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you are worth 100,000 pictures. I compare comedian

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

stand straight and act like someone who deserves to be listened to).

If I don't treat my own projects with respect, then how can I expect others to? If I don't treat myself with dignity, then how can I expect the people around me to treat me, or even one another, with dignity?

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be accepted by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

quoted Djuna Barnes: "Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.