Quotes About Self-worth

Even you, the person asking the question. 'I'm useless' is the answer you give yourself. Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

What other people think of you is none of your business!

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.

Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

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.

Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Comme cela arrive, d'ailleurs, à la plupart des gens en ce monde : ils recherchent la souffrance là où ils trouveraient les joies les plus grandes, parce qu'ils croient qu'ils ne méritent pas le bonheur.

Only those who fail to recognize that inner strength will say, I lost, and be sad.

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will be changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

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.

Tienen miedo de realizar sus mayores sueños porque consideran que no los merecen, o no van a conseguirlos.

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.

I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I'm capable of taking my own decision.

Well, I'm working on a project now with some women who are working as strippers." I liked the way she said that: "women who are working as strippers." Not "strippers." She made stripping what they did for a living, not who they were.

It's like the Léon Damas story about the black man on the bus who felt bad because the only other black man on the same bus was ugly and sweaty and dirty and ill-kempt. It is hard to express it. So sad.

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—

Never reproach him with his own weakness, for then he will become wholly weak. Never let him feel that but for you he would be useless, for then he will indeed become useless. You must search for the few strong threads in him and weave your fabric with those, and where the threads are weak, never trust to them. Supply your own in secret.

This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, "This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.