Quotes About Self-worth

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

A struggle in my life is to feel like I'm a good person and to feel like I'm a nice person. I try to be and anytime I fall short of that it feels really bad.

What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

I've got no interest in justifying myself to a player of mine.

I could see that I was losing weight and sometimes I'd see a few good comments and that spiralled me to be like: 'This is how I need to stay.' No one cares whether your performance was good, or if you sounded great.

because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did. That's what I see now, and that's what I've always seen when I look at you.

I was a man, but I was not nearly the magnitude of a man I had hoped I might be

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.

You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making to much noise in restaurants and clubs and winebars. 'Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!' Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.

he was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that.