Quotes About Self-worth

sense of inner peace and a feeling of self-worth.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

Beauty is not just physical.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would.

Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't know, those ice-cream balls could be a little tighter," he says, a serious look on his face like he actually means it. Noel's chuckling, which is a relief because it means it looks okay to him, but I'm ready to lose it. I can't believe I'm letting this coke-snorting new guy get the best of me. "Yeah," I say, "like marbles. We could name the dish after you.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Had I lost love and appreciation because I had grown so bad, or had I grown so bad because I had lost its encouragement?

To make peace with yourself, you may have to give up a lot. You may have to give up feeling sorry for yourself, straining to be someone you are not, hiding the parts of yourself you fear are unacceptable, and worrying about what others think.

Regardless of your feelings, you must remind yourself that you are a person of value in God's sight.

Do Yourself a Favor—Love Yourself as You Are

The fierce pride I had in my being was hurt by the slow disintegration of his own.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough

It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others.

Whatever we seek to hide makes shame grow.

To guard against the intolerable feeling of shame, we may fold ourselves up and hide in the darkest corner. We may apologize for taking up too much space or for using up too much of the valuable oxygen in the room. Or we may do the opposite and flip shame into contempt, arrogance, a need to control, and displays of one-upmanship, dominance, and superiority. In the latter case the person may be hell-bent on not apologizing to anybody.