Quotes About Self-worth

Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle.

Life is too short to worry about what other people think

You have a mighty high opinion of yourself, I told him. The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that

Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right. "No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Don't be someone else's little cheerleader", Mom said. "Be the star of your own show. Even if there's no audience.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

What makes or breaks a man is not what people think of him, but what he thinks of himself.

his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.

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