Quotes About Self-worth

Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

It gave her a sense of pride and accomplishment

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.

Because he has money he's a kind of god. Because I have none I'm a kind of worm. A worm because I've failed and I have no money. A worm because I'm not even sure if I hate you.

People don't give you what you're worth - not in anything they don't. They give you what they think you're used to.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

You were loved then and you are loved now. Isn't that enough?

Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.

Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons, and she never took holidays because she said -- and I will never forget it -- When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

Of course people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things, so there's no need to take it personally.

Lo que arriesgas revela cuánto vales.

She hated being a nobody, and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents – we don't really have any choice

Take no notice of anyone you don't respect.

Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence.

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?

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mas también con la satisfacción interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: "Merezco mi propia estimación; sé preferir mi deber a mi placer".

The end of this speech cruelly belied the brilliant hopes given to me by the beginning. What, always a lackey? I said to myself with a bitter disdain that confidence soon erased. I felt myself too little made for that place to fear that they would leave me there

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.