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Quotes About Self-worth

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem
~ Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
~ Paulo Coelho
Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.
~ Paulo Coelho
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block -Nyah
~ Paulo Coelho
You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end
~ Paulo Coelho
At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.
~ Paulo Coelho
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry
~ Paulo Coelho
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.
~ Paulo Coelho
Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
~ Paulo Coelho
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even though I complain sometimes, it said, it's because I'm the heart of a person, and people's hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
~ Paulo Coelho
In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.
~ Paulo Coelho
At some point, we have each said through our tears, I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: What a pointless existence. Whether you like it or not, i know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only someone capable of honoring each step he takes can comprehend his own worth.
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.
~ Paulo Coelho
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...
~ Paulo Coelho