Quotes About Self-worth

Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

Her father said, whenever the subject came up, that if she'd lose some weight, she'd find a boyfriend. She knew that wasn't necessarily the case, since plenty of girls who had perfect figures and were half her size couldn't find a boyfriend. And other girls who were overweight were happily married, engaged or had significant others.Romance, she knew, wasn't directed tied to your weight, there were a lot of other factors.

A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Não se encontra a felicidade à custa de outra pessoa.

Whatever age you are," her mother said tartly, "age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel 'too old' at any age, if you let yourself. You're never too old or too young for anything, you're just the right age.

Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.

but she felt like she had to earn him, and she hadn't. Not yet. And maybe never, she admitted to herself.

people he writes about demand respect, they have boundaries, most of the characters don't take crap from anyone. The ones who do always take it on the chin and have to learn the lesson.

Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

Face it, Jorlan, we are the lesser sex. That is why our name-givers take care of us. Left alone, we would fall to ruin. We are intellectually inferior. Left unmonitored, our innate male aggression would destroy this world.

Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

I choose not to fight — it doesn't mean I can't ! I'm no heroic vampire, but I'm not the useless coward many think I am. If you fought more often, they wouldn't think that, I noted. True, he admitted. But their opinion doesn't matter. Kurda put his fingers on my chest and pressed softly down on my heart. In here is where a man should judge himself, not on bars or in a ring or on a battlefield. If you know in your heart that you're true and brave, that should be enough.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

The fact is, you deserve every dollar you can get your hands on. There is nothing greedy about it. You deserve a raise, and you're capable of getting one. You just have to believe in yourself and start asking for it.

Every time I walk with Alex I'm reminded both how lucky I am to have friends like him and also how unworthy I am to have friends like him. - Oliver Stone