Quotes About Self-worth

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

If the imitation is always trying to be something, and cares desperately for its status, the original is really something, but does not care.

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.

An addict needs shame like a man dying of thirst needs salt water.

And I loathed myself. I loathed myself for the state I was in. I loathed myself as an unlovable person. I felt there was something intrinsically monstrous about me, some rancid stink inside my soul that I had barely managed to cover over with the cheap perfume of my charm. I felt mostly dead and deserving of it. I had become an inanimate object to myself. I had somehow misplaced the knowledge that I was human.

It's not okay to be critical of yourself.

When I think of the greatness of my job, I am amazed, but on reflection, who is as good as I am? I know of no one.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

Love does not mean she gets to ride the bulldozer while you lay in the street.

I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours." "It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?

My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.

If you are going to stop the world you must claim your power, but no man can claim his power if he feels unworthy of it.

When you're feeling insecure, you typically don't notice the hundreds of people around you who accept you just the way you are. All you notice are the few who don't. Don't ever forget your worth. Spend time with those who value you. No matter how good you are to people, there will always be negative minds out there who criticize you. Smile, ignore them, and carry on. You might feel unwanted and unworthy to one person, but you are priceless to another.

It doesn't matter if you work at a fast food joint or if you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Your job title does not define your purpose. The size of your paycheck does not make you worthy. What makes you valuable is your contribution to the world and the legacy that you leave behind. Stop defining yourself by what you do, and start defining yourself by who you are!

People don't like you because they don't see in you the things they like or there is something in you they don't have

Let no lost love break you. If you really did beyond your best, that's one thing to make you proud of your innumerable abundance

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.