Quotes About Self-worth

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

Men don't define our journey. It's about honoring our queendom. Vibrating at our divine plane.

Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. Teenage girls couldn't wait to be ruined.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap.

I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off—I'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk.

one thing I've realized is that my life in its entirety is more important than any one aspect of it. And the sad truth is that until I met you I didn't have anything else.

Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

I wanted to be enough to fill the universe inside of Jacob Grace. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

For what it's worth, I don't go out of my way to be difficult. I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

Only help her to know—help make it so there is cause for her to know—that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

One of man's greatest flaws is that he thinks far too highly of what he does.

One of man's greatest flaws is assigning far too much importance to what he does.

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

People don't want to be projects.

That's life in general: Can't let jerks dictate your emotions.

Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.