Quotes About Self-worth

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

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

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

It's always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Donating your time to an unworthy situation is spending your emotional cash to bankrupt your dreams ~Bluenscottish

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.