Quotes About Self-worth

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

Power is being told you are not loved... and not being destroyed by it.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Trying your best and feeling good about yourself is more important than winning prizes.

realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," Trump told Blum. "I realized then and there something I would never forget: I don't want to be made anybody's sucker.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.

But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn't try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.

After years of feeling like the dutiful daughter, now I just felt like a complete shit.

Corollary habit: deriving the bulk of my self-wroth from a feeling of hypercompetence, an irrational but fervent belief in my near total self-reliance.

She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

You shall not look at me, she wants to say, you shall not see into me. I will not be yours. How dare you assess me and find me lacking?

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.