Quotes About Self-worth

I just didn't want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don't even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

Are you willing to accept anything less than the credit you want, the credit you need and the credit you deserve?

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

What I have learned in this life is that you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

But what I found out, the longer you sit there and feel bad about yourself, the longer you're going to stay depressed.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, "I'm good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way." You can't depend on that to come from nobody else.

hear the damning things Emmitt said to me. Because of his cruelty, for many years, I didn't feel as if I deserved to be happy or successful. I didn't feel worthy because I had his voice resonating in my head, telling me that I was nothing, that I was horrible, that I didn't deserve anything good in life. When you grow up being told those things every day, they take root in your subconscious and undermine every positive event in your life.

You are worthy because God gave you breath in your body. You have a right to walk this planet just like everyone else.

You have a right to every good and perfect gift, because God said you are good and perfect. I challenge you to get to worthy.

When you know your worth, when you know your value, your life changes and you change lives.

I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye.... My body made me feel bad at everything.... I just was so depressed that I just focused on my studies and had a 4.0. And I really tried to be proud of that because that was the only thing I was excelling in.

Stop that! Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.

Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree...

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.