Quotes About Self-worth

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.