Quotes About Self-worth

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.