Quotes About Self-worth

I don't mind someone saying I'm not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you're faking an injury.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'

I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.

I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

I'm not interested in celebrity.

I am not interested in being a star.

I don't mind playing a mom, but if I'm just somebody in someone else's love story, then I'm not interested.

It is really amazing what you can do with your body and learning that your body has skills and a purpose, as a woman you are always taught that your body is like in the way, too big or just not perfect.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

How could God give me a dream, a dream of going to Notre Dame, a dream of becoming somebody, and I'm a dummy, I'm nobody.

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other people do it because they haven't got kids and they've nowhere else to be. But because I have, I don't feel like that.

Number one is a great thing, and I'll always know that I'm number one, but 44 is my favourite number, so I want to keep it on the car.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.