Quotes About Self-worth

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.

Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

Jos teitä potkitaan ja arvostellaan, muistakaa, että niin tehdään usein siitä syystä, että potkija saa siitä tietynlaista tärkeyden tunnetta. Se merkitsee monesti, että saatte aikaan jotakin ja olette huomion arvoinen. Useat ihmiset saavat raakaa tyydytystä siitä, että loukkaavat niitä, jotka ovat sivistyneempiä kuin he tai menestyvät paremmin.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my self-esteem.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Nada há que eu necessite tanto como estímulos para minha vaidade".

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

the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;

Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men?

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.

She flinched when I did it, and that involuntary response of hers satisfied me in some small, cheap way. I never claimed I was lovable. Never said I wasn't a son of a bitch.

Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet the way I did

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself, None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you, None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you, I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. Why what have you thought of yourself? Is it you then that thought yourself less?

People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.

So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.

One odd result of allowing super-enhancements could be that children will become like iPhones: a new version will come out every few years with better features and apps. Will children as they age feel that they are becoming obsolete? That their eyes don't have the cool triple-lens enhancements that are engineered into the latest version of kids? Fortunately, these are questions we can ask for amusement but not for an answer.

Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.

It's a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred in the eyes of others. "BLUE