Quotes About Self-worth

Papa, who instructed us to always hold our heads up, who promised us we were worthy, who assured us we were descended from kings—and from architects and farmers and healers and visionaries—no matter what all the hateful people in the world had to say about us.

So he's nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could've told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?

I had to second-guess everything. The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with?

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Your body is not a lemon!

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

The arrogance to insist on her own unhappiness, her own loneliness, had always been in her, but only now did it venture to emerge; it blossomed, ran wild, smothered her. She was unredeemable and nobody should have the effrontery to redeem her…

Jag pluggade, pluggade, pluggade. Jag var helt enkelt livrädd för att inte vara bäst.

If you believe in yourself and what you're doing with your life, stand tall and don't make excuses for who you are. 

Even a caterpillar gets to turn into a butterfly. Am I ever gonna be pretty, Daddy?

who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.

To be clear: I am not anti-marriage. I am anti-marrying-people-who-suck-at-life-and-will-suck-the-life-out-of-you.

Sono una prostituta, è vero, però non mi vendo a tutti.

Tu solo, Carlo, non hai ripudiato l'anima mia. Dall'amore tuo solo così generoso e costante presi il coraggio di guardare dentro di me e dire:"Non son poi tanto spregevole se un tal cuore continua ad amarmi.

perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked

Don't belittle yourself or be ashamed of you who you are. That's your husband's job, and he does it so well.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

I have this desire in my gut to be liked by everybody. That always happens when nobody likes you.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself "spiritually" the underdog. Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.

And this the burthen of his songForever used to be,"I care for nobody, not I,If no one cares for me."

Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.