Quotes About Self-worth

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.