Quotes About Self-worth

While it pretends not to, it subliminally sends the message that those who are smarter and more accomplished are actually worth more than those who are not.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

Etiketleme, sadece y?k?c? de?il, mant?ks?zd?r da.Birey olarak siz, yapt???n?z tek bir ?eyle ölçülemezsiniz. Hayat?n?z karma??k ve sürekli olarak de?i?en bir dü?ünceler, duygular ve hareketler ak???d?r. Ba?ka bir deyi?le, bir heykelden çok bir nehirsiniz.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.

better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

It is okay to be flawed and defective, or even wonderful

You are only punishing yourself when you want to be in a relationship with a woman more than she wants to be a in a relationship with you.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar's cheeks and said, "It means nothing." And then, "When will you stop worrying about what other people think?

It's pleasant to be with yourself as long as possible—if you've made yourself into someone worth spending time with."22

No se necesita una sesión muy larga para comprender que mi vida es un intento incesante de probarle al mundo que valgo algo.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Basil Pennington suggests that the core of the false self is the belief that my value depends on what I have, what I can do and what others think of me.

When people ask what I do, I say: "I'm a teacher." or: "I proofread legal documents." or: "I hand out jalapeño humus dip at Trader Joe's." I say, to myself, mostly: "I'm alive, motherfucker. What else do you want?"

There is something very wrong with what we have made ourselves. We have become a civilization based on work—not even "productive work" but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.

Most people's sense of dignity and self-worth is caught up in working for a living. Most people hate their jobs. We might refer to this as "the paradox of modern work.

They are free people, each of whom considers himself of as much consequence as the others; and they submit to their chiefs only in so far as it pleases them.'24

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her.

Suicide - " jumps off his ego onto his IQ

Where a woman's faith in herself ends; so too does her joy.