Quotes About Self-worth

The next year, when he'd won first prize for spelling and was given a wooden pencil-case whose sliding top doubled as a ruler, Mrs Wilson had rubbed the top of his head and praised him, as though he was one of her own. 'You're a credit to yourself,' she'd told him. And for a whole day or more, Furlong had gone around feeling a foot taller, believing, in his heart, that he mattered as much as any other child.

I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.

Medo de não amar, pior do que o medo de não ser amado.

Baim? nemyl?ti dar blogiau už baim? b?ti nemylimam.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

What's left of you when your arm can't even put on a jacket and your leg can't even take a step and your neck can't straighten up enough to let you show your face to the world, what's left? Are you your brain, which keeps sending out orders that won't be fol- lowed? Or are you the thought itself, something that can't be seen or touched beyond that furrowed organ guarded inside the cranium like a trove?

Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo.

I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that? We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we've just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire

Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

Friends are not like physical goods which are for sale. You don't have to beg for people to like you.

The worth of a man is usually co-existing with a woman. The worth of a woman is solely dependent on herself.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

On a scale of one to ten you're a two, and that's cuz I've never seen a one.

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!

Every single time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins.

You deserve to be happy.

Pygmalion: "A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn't have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn't even bring a spade.

For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.