Quotes About Self-worth

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

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

But if you feel better about how you present yourself to the world, how you feel about you, inside and out, I don't see the shallow in that.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I don't want to be an oddity, a freak, or a curiosity. I don't want to be the car wreck that people slow down to gawk at.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.

I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.

What was my personal Big Bang? Did I get hooked on guns because I discovered I was good at precisely the moment I was experiencing my first feelings of masculine inadequacy? All I knew at the time was that the rifle range replaced the nurse's office as my place of refuge.

I believe that self-worth is where you find it and that the most beautiful form of self-worth occurs when you maximize the amount of love you share with the world, no matter how mundane or humble the circumstances may be. I believe that just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you need a job with a BlackBerry. And most important, I believe in lemonade.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." —attributed to Mark Twain

After his train wreck of a life, he wasn't sure anything he did would be valued by God.

I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.

Mom said that going back to an ex-boyfriend was like buying your own garage sale junk after the sale's over. Somebody else may think your old stuff is gold, but you know better. It's not golden for you.

Ah — but am I worth loving?

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule: "At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care. At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway!

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