Quotes About Self-worth

Her price fluctuated. When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention.

a rusty machete and a bag of almonds makes you a person of substance?

You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life.

La conciencia del amor propio está tan profundamente arraigada en las cosas más elevadas y más espirituales, que no puede arrancarse ni viviendo en un campo de concentración. ¿Pero cuántos hombres libres, por no hablar de los prisioneros, lo poseen?

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him— mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

La conciencia del amor propio está tan profundamente arraigada en las cosas más elevadas y más espirituales, que no puede arrancarse ni viviendo en un campo de concentración. ¿Pero cuántos hombres libres, por no hablar de los prisioneros, la poseen?

Don't let anyone—no matter how important, famous, or powerful—make you feel ashamed about standing up for your boundaries.

It's been my experience that people who treat others as inferiors are really only covering up their own lack of class.

Darling, we're all whores under the skin, whether we give ourselves by calculation or by desire. It's just that some of us demand a higher price than others.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.

She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it.

Mo?liwe, ?e obstaj?c odrobin? zbyt uporczywie przy ni?szo?ci kobiet, profesor nie mia? wcale na uwadze ni?szo?ci kobiet w?a?nie, ale raczej swoj? w?asn? wy?szo??. To j? w?a?nie stara? si? ochroni? - a robi? to gor?czkowo i mo?e z nieco zbyt wielkim naciskiem, poniewa? jego wy?szo?? stanowi?a dla? nies?ychanie cenny klejnot.

In the glass she wore an expression of tense melancholy, for she had come to the depressing conclusion, since the arrival of the Dalloways, that her face was not the face she wanted, and in all probability never would be.

Posiblemente, cuando el profesor insistía con demasiado énfasis sobre la inferioridad de las mujeres, no era la inferioridad de éstas lo que le preocupaba, sino su propia superioridad. Era esto lo que protegía un tanto acaloradamente y con demasiada insistencia, porque para él era una joya del precio más incalculable.

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