Quotes About Self-worth

None of us feels good about ourselves when we're nagging, critical, or controlling.

Men come and go. The only thing a woman has that no one can take away is her opinion of herself.

You look in the mirror and you don't like what you see? Don't believe it. Look into my eyes; I'm the only mirror you'll ever need.

When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.

While the no answer is not ideal, if you say over and over a number of times, "No now is not a no forever," you will feel better about yourself, shake off this one occurrence, and get back to asking again.

This is a terrible way to live—unfulfilled because you could not ask for something that you really wanted or, worse, didn't ask for to avoid pain. Fear of rejection and fear of hearing a "no" to your ask has always prevented many people from asking.

Soy rara, todos lo saben. Y me gustaría estar segura de que a Tux le gusto por ser como soy... y no a pesar de ser como soy.

Tú no eres un error. Eres una criatura extraordinaria, Fenris, seas lo que seas'' Ronna

It was wounded pride. The only thing worse than throwing herself at him was clinging to him afterward and pressuring him to feel things he didn't. Dani

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

But now I saw the real problem with chasing after a man. It wasn't a matter of being unseemly or socially unacceptable or not playing the game right. It was just this: if I chase him, I'll never really know if he cares enough to chase me.

When you get back together with an old boyfriend, it's pathetic. It's like having a garage sale and buying your own stuff back.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

Viola started for the door, but turned in the doorway to look at her one more time. "By the way, Daphne, beauty does not mean a thing, you know." Daphne watched as her new friend vanished through the doorway, and she smiled a bit ruefully. "Beautiful women always say that," she murmured to the empty doorway.

This was why I did what I did," she whispered. "I looked at those men at the ball, and I thought of that night in the carriage when you touched me, and I knew I could never let any of them touch me." She tilted her head back and closed her eyes, pressing his hands to her breasts. "Only you.

The product might not be any better, but choosing to pay extra was a way of saying you deserved a little luxury in this world and that mind-set could make it so.

Whenever I got cross with him, I would think about that girl at the bus stop, how unhappy she was, how she thought no one could ever want to take her on a date, much less love her. It may sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did.

Again, I have to ask: are you really missing if nobody misses you?

You got to start thinking, and you've got to let go of the idea that you're something special to somebody, because none of us are, and if you don't, if you don't stop dreaming about that, you're going to end up all snap-snap-snapped to pieces.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.