Quotes About Self-worth

The underlying problem with many Backstabbers is a lack of self-esteem

If somebody tells us it's rubbish, then our attitude is that the person's misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

When I was really small I thought I'd do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn't want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.

I wondered if she would have left me if there had been more inside of me to love, or if I just could have needed less.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to. I was considered a scrawny guy in the gym. [...] Yet sometimes when I stood in front of my own mirror at home, I saw a powerful me. I couldn't hold onto the image, though. It slipped like a globule of mercury from under my index finger.

Humans are so foolish--we measure ourselves by our residue.

I know you love him, Leslie. But you can't sacrifice everything you've worked for, just for a man. This is Feminism 101. You know that already.

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Your core value does not rest on the words of your husband or your mother or your father or your children or even your best friend. It rests on God's words because he's the only one who will always tell you the truth all the time. People change. They fail. They lie. Their knowledge is limited, their thinking distorted, and their hearts are not always pure or good. Therefore it's dangerous to allow them to determine your worth.

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. Here's

Emotional abuse systematically degrades, diminishes, and can eventually destroy the personhood of the abused.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.

Emily Greenstreet was one of these girls that nobody ever notices, who are only friends with other girls nobody notices. Nobody likes or dislikes them. They have weak chins, or chicken-pox scars, or their glasses are too big. I know I'm being mean. But you know, they're just sort of at the edge of everything.

Every girl is proud of an offer - Yes, every girl, but not she

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

Having goals can be useful, but don't lose sight of how great you are and how much you can help yourself and others right now.

I don't think I am as useful as a bat is to the society.

Some of us find 'relaxing' to be, in itself, nerve-racking. If we aren't doing something useful or, at least, that seems useful, we feel guilty, impatient, and mortal.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.