Quotes About Self-worth

not come to feel his own goodness, worth and lovableness because those significant persons in his life were not present to him with the full attention of their whole being.

Orice om are nevoie de convingerea c? este un soare f?r? de care nu exist? nimic. Este important acest lucru în viaÈ›a unui om. Restul nici nu mai conteaz?. F?r? aceast? încredere, omul devine cu adev?rat o fiin?? ce poate fi trecut? cu vederea. ViaÈ›a lui este f?r? nici un folos. Ca un astru mort È™i r?t?citor, pe care nimeni nu-l cunoaÈ™te.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world.

She felt so stupid, and Elinor hated to feel stupid. It was almost worse than feeling sad.

You have to believe that you're entitled to happiness.

And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you.

But I always hoped a man would fall in love with me for my brain.

Did he, in a way he was unable to articulate, actually like my strong will? Or did he mistake me for a typical woman, was he game to be my boyfriend not because I was Hillary and distinctly myself but because I possessed the standard feminine qualities that a college-educated man in the late 1960s might wish for? Did he not understand that I was special?

his unguarded face is startlingly handsome; the truth is that I still can't believe a hot, smart, kind man loves me back.

now I wonder where I had gotten the idea that for you to participate in a gathering, the other people had to really, really want you to be there and that anything short of rabid enthusiasm on their part meant you'd be a nuisance.

Where had I gotten the idea that being a nuissance was that big a deal?

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

So, in seeking to make him nobler than he could be, she destroyed him. She injured and hurt and scarred herself, but she lost none of her worth. She also had the children.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.

The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Even if we are right and the other person is definitely wrong, we only destroy ego by causing someone to lose face. The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Don't you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.