Quotes About Self-worth

You've been trying to pretend to be a boy; you've sensed, rightly or wrongly, that your father would have preferred to have a boy, but there is nothing superior about being a boy. You be yourself, a beautiful woman with brains and knowledge, and be glad to be yourself. Then you will have a happy life.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

There was a part of her that cried out, 'Am I good enough yet?' but who was she hoping would answer that question?

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

You are not what your parent, coach, teacher, grandparent, or the bully at school said you were or made you feel like.

We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love.

You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.

The truth, not just for me but for you, is that our value is based not on what we do but on who made us (Ps. 139:13–16).

You have robbed me of all the dignity I had for myself.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Mirrors are for misery, nothing more...they record decay.

It's alright. It's okay if it's about your ego. Sometimes it's got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

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

After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.

I propose that some of our health problems, as well as problems in other life areas, originate from receiving inadequate protection in utero, such as might occur if our mom didn't want us, wasn't loved by others, or didn't love herself.