Quotes About Self-worth

A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that's who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

The root of these fundamentalist tendencies, these dogmatic tendencies, is a fixed identity—a fixed view we have of ourselves as good or bad, worthy or unworthy, this or that. With a fixed identity, we have to busy ourselves with trying to rearrange reality, because reality doesn't always conform to our view.

We may find that we're habitually focused on incompleteness. We have thoughts such as "I am unworthy, I am lacking, the world is nothing but problems." With this outlook, we will see imperfection wherever we look and always feel dissatisfied.

BEING ABLE to lighten up is the key to feeling at home with your body, mind, and emotions, to feeling worthy to live on this planet.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

No one has the right to beat you.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

Nobody is better than me.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.