Quotes About Self-worth

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Bird laughs. For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.

Proof, she told herself, that I'm just as smart as the others. That I belong.

My mom says kids only need one parent. She says if my dad doesn't care enough to see me, it's his loss, not mine.

I stället ställde hon den fråga som flöt under alla de andra frågorna som en djup underjordisk flod. »Var jag önskad?«

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

nu poti iubi pe cineva mai mult decat pe tine insuti".

Non si può amare un altro più di se stessi. Chi non si salva da sé, non lo salva nessuno

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

Secretly, Lucien was ashamed that he was so useless to his country. Sometimes, he felt guilty that he was alive.

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.

Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!

I am, sir,' said Mr Tigg, striking himself upon the breast, 'a premium tulip, of a very different growth and cultivation from the cabbage Slyme, sir.

If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind—

Taip per vis? gyvenim? mes darome žemus ir menkus poelgius, baimindamiesi t?, kuri? visiškai nevertiname.

have come to realize that I am the indispensable person only until the moment I say no.