Quotes About Self-worth

placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

No, that relationship didn't work out. But that doesn't mean you'll never find love. It also doesn't mean you aren't capable, likable, and lovely.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself. And the minute you sense that happening is the minute you must stop the runaway thinking with truth.

Insecurities should not prompt me to get things from others that I should be getting from God. Rather they should prompt me to give to others so I can point them to God.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

we must not confuse the disease to please with the command to love.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.

As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and ask them to tell you one thing they did that they appreciate themselves for and one thing someone else did that they are thankful for. You

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.

was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it.

It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it.

Sometimes that made me feel kind of tired. It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it. I felt like I'd been running toward it for a long time.

I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

I should remember that I be just as worthy now as I will be when this is done.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.