Quotes About Self-worth

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

Why do some women feel their only value is in their body? Why do they continue to stuff their shapes into too-tight dresses, their feet into stilettos, their brains into closed vaults that can't breathe and subsequently suffocate? Why do they tuck and nip and smooth when the ultimate beauty isn't on the surface at all? And why do they not see this?

Look, I know this sucks for you because of him and I want to be there for you, I do, but I can't do this anymore. I can't keep being your second choice-- not when you're my first.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

I am a big believer in the ''mirror test.'' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

The secret of loving is living loved.