Quotes About Self-worth

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.