Quotes About Self-worth

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

for me to ask for a raise is—is demeaning.

If you can't dance then you are a loser.

how could you go on thinking somebody was better than you by nature when he ran away for fear that you would blow him a new asshole with your Springfield? Wasn't he a man, just like you? Wasn't he a frightened man, just like you?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less.

But here is what I tell my own daughters, when they start to place all of the magic outside of themselves, when they start to feel like some random dude owns the sun and the moon and the stars: The world has told you lies about how small you are.

we learn to treat our humanity itself as poisonous, to treat our most human desires as a kind of sickness that can only be cured with outside help.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO

Hold your own space and honor yourself and don't let that space shrink or collapse in the company of indifference. Don't ask indifference to love you. Indifference can go fuck itself. This is your life, and it's going to be big and bright and beautiful.

Here's the thing: being nice is worthless if you're just going to feel resentful about it in the end.

He acts like he doesn't even notice that I should be locked away forever and ever in some bad, drafty place that serves only American cheese.

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

How did you teach your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

How did you teach your your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

You have to help him unlearn it. You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.