Quotes About Self-worth

A guy like Franz could talk smack all day about my Afro, my lack of brains, my mother, her alleged lack of virtue.

Sommige mensen wachten hun hele leven op applaus van de wereld en pas vlak voor hun dood komen ze tot de ontdekking dat ze voor een lege zaal hebben staan spelen.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma'am. I'm not worth more than fifteen.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, "I'm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Why do we insist of depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Why do we insist on depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen." "I wasn't born with it." "Where did you get it?" 'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.

because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

When will women not be compelled to view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained? When will a woman cease to be made of pain?

We all of us go about, she meant to tell him but was too occupied, wanting to be wanted but unsure why anybody should bother.

It's about who I am right now. That I have value and worth as a person just being who I am. I don't have to do things or achieve something for approval, for love. For you to love me.

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. All of us – Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, even the godless – will always be seen by others through their personal spectacles of perception.