Quotes About Self-worth

You will treat yourself and others according to the way you think God feels about you.

Why do so many ...settle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them

Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

People take you at your own evaluation, or at least the value that you appear to show.

The ego thought system is based not only on guilt, but on lack. The scarecrow thinks he needs a brain, the tin man thinks he needs a heart, and the lion thinks he lacks courage. We are taught we have to earn everything here, or that it has to be bestowed upon us by someone worthier or better than we are. We suffer and sacrifice ourselves in order to be worthy of God's love. Does this feel right to you?

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

I am a woman above everything else.

What would Bob think? That's the question. I need to get you a bumper sticker that says WHAT WOULD BOB THINK?" "I don't need the bumper sticker because it's already stamped on my brain and I wish it wasn't. It shouldn't matter so much what he thinks. This is my life without him," she said.

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time.

She would not allow someone for whom she had so little regard to have a negative effect on her mood at the start of a new week. -Pardonable Lies

When boys called our names, we said 'Don't even say my name. Don't even put it in your mouth.' When they said, 'You ugly anyway,' we knew they were lying. When they hollered, 'Conceited!' we said, 'No- convinced!' We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together wasn't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.

H?rsl?lar, kendilerini kimseden a?a?? saymamakla kazand?klar? zihinsel gücü, kendilerini ba?ka herkesten üstün saymakla kaybederler

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it was one of those things that would go away-- your beauty would go away,and there wouldn't be anything you could do to bring it back.

The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well but instead of the well being filled with water it was filled with the word 'slut,' and it was pouring in through my eyes, my ears, my nostrils, my mouth. As if to save myself, I turned to her and said, 'Well, like father like son, like mother like daughter.

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out.

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

Mindlessly working to impress someone else will ensure your success is always dependent on that someone else.

And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you.

We're taught at an early age that we're not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.