Quotes About Self-worth

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.