Quotes About Self-worth

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding.

Here, you are exceptional...There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

You are strong in spite of him. Not because of him.

I wonder if it was your father who made you think so little of yourself," Wolfe said, which was not at all what Jess expected. "Having met the man, I would believe it. But, Jess: don't believe what the demons whisper in the corners of your mind. We all have demons. You are not to be compared against any of the others, or against your own brother. You are yourself. And if I had not seen genius in you, I never would have kept you in the class. I don't coddle mediocrity.

Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente buenas.

That's incredible...I don't know--okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding. But so many cling to their emptiness, and I fear that they may yet prevail.

The incidental fact of his straightness doesn't mean I want to be NoMo's five-minute girlfriend, like I'm some 7-Eleven quick stop on his slut train.

A woman's body, said the world, was a prison in which her mind must wither.

he had not the slightest idea who he was without praise, without steady advancement toward a degree and title, without organized competition for some elite goal?

My form is neither pleasing nor displeasing," she said. "But I've let the world see how little I care for its verdict.

Everybody else is living my life and they are having far more fun than me.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

I could live with one butt cheek — just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass — but I couldn't live with my brains blown out.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

In their humility, they can't easily see themselves as the spine and heart of the world, but if they don't eventually understand their value, the necessity of their resistance, the future will be an ugly realm of madness, oppression, and endless violence.

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not.