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Quotes About Self-worth

This proves I'm totally worthless" leads to despair and loss of confidence, while "I can't stand when I act that way" can lead to wisdom and determination.
~ Mark Goulston
What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.
~ Mark Hall
You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.
~ Unknown
If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?
~ Unknown
If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it.
~ Mark Slouka
You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.
~ Unknown
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that
~ Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
~ Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
~ Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.
~ Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
~ Mark Twain
Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.
~ Mark Twight
The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.
~ Mark Twight
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.
~ Mark Twight
Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.
~ Julie Newmar
I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.
~ Carmelo Anthony
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
~ Harper Lee
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
~ Will Ferrell
You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.
~ Stephen Colbert
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
~ Douglas Coupland
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
~ Lauren Graham
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
~ Elbert Hubbard