Quotes About Self-worth

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe they deserved less and less every day?

I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually accept that you are worthless.

When you gamble for tiles, you are skillful. When you gamble for your belt buckle, you begin to hesitate; and when you gamble for gold, you get confused. Your skill is the same, but you get cautious because you value something outside yourself. When you do this you become awkward inside." Lieh Tzu, Chapter 2

Un uomo può avere il sentimento di una propria altissima intelligenza, che non dia altro segno di sè fuori di quel suo forte sentimento.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me.

You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.

As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

Miracles/Are merely things we think we don't deserve.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

This tendency to ignore the body can be reinforced by a sense that many of us have; that we do not like ours very much - they might not be as tall or as thin or as attractive as we'd like. Or perhaps they don't work as well as they used to. And, for some of us, there is a whisper at the back of our minds that one day they will let us down catastrophically; there will come a time when our bodies grow old and die, whether we're ready for it or not.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others.