Quotes About Self-worth

Now you'll just have to experience what the rest of the single sisterhood goes through every time we give out our number. We sit glued to our phones for days on end, hating mankind, and thinking that if only we were thinner, or fatter, or blonder, or darker, or louder, or more quiet, he'd phone.

Clearly here was someone, like me, who tended to stumble through life and managed to see the funny side of situations. Someone who, like me, was fairly shy, yet not averse to expressing his opinions; someone who unlike me had a developed sense of his own worth and had the effrontery to convey it.

You can't make another person treat you with respect, but you can treat yourself with respect. Walking away is treating yourself with respect—and

In fact, a true sense of self-worth does not come from being loved, praised, or showered with goodies. It comes from having skills that provide a sense of capability and resilience to handle the ups and downs and disappointments of life.

The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I'm being unkind, but I am telling you a truth. A plain girl has a longer time to herself, and when a man falls in love with her, he loves her for herself, for who she is.

There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret—it was a source of pride.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing. Ranger

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples? Helen Plum

It is written by the Sage that you, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tell me more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, it was base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many times with my mother. A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it.

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy." I

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

It was true, Jeremy took advantage. And she let him. It was his film, and she really didn't care. It was just a body, like a rented suit. Michael had tried to make her feel differently about herself, that it wasn't just for use by others, it was hers, she belonged to herself, she had to occupy herself.

Third, COAs' greatest difficulties are in the area of their relationship with themselves. Their greatest difficulty is the lack of ability to experience themselves as valuable and worthy and lovable. Their greatest assets are a capability of offering you the sense that you are valuable and worthy and lovable. There is much to be gained from being involved with a COA.

God says we are of worth. Satan tries to convince us wer are mere trash. If he can accomplish that, then we give up. We do no even try to fullfill our God-given ministry to others.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

When you've grown up with limited resources, there's almost a narrative that everything's unlikely and the odds are against you. I guess then, if things start to happen, you immediately think, 'Do I even deserve this?'

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.