Quotes About Self-worth

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

Remember Feeling you have no time doesn't mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn't mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn't mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven't achieved enough doesn't mean you haven't achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn't make you less complete.

Las revistas son muy populares, aunque ningún humano se siente mejor después de leerlas; es más, su principal objetivo parece ser generar una sensación de inferioridad en el lector que, a su vez, le crea la necesidad de adquirir algo, cosa que hacen, para, sin falta, sentirse peor y tener que comprar otra revista para ver lo siguiente que pueden comprar. Es un círculo vicioso eterno e ingrato que recibe el nombre de capitalismo y que goza de gran popularidad.

I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in zoo.

cunt   The worst thing humans can be called is their point of origin. This says a lot.

Magazines are colourful, glossy print-based tools designed to fuel a sense of inadequacy within the reader. The aim of a magazine publisher being to make people feel too poor, fat, old, single, unhealthy, unfamous, ill informed, badly dressed, anxious, undersexed and generally depressed, while at the same time acting like they are solving these problems.

Your self-worth is not found inside the minds of other people.

Nora had no idea what success was. She had felt like a failure for so long.

You ,as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love , your affection & your respect . Until you value yourself, no-one else will . Never be bullied into silence. Love yourself first and everything else will fall into line.

You are not what happened to you.

It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so

don't let your past rob you of your future. You are more than the worst thing that has ever happened to you. You are more than the worst thing you have ever done. God is never more than one choice away.

Celui qui est doué d'une véritable humilité n'est guère préoccupé par son image. Celui qui possède des qualités indiscutables et une confiance en soi justifiée aura peu de chances d'être touché par les critiques.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

how it does rankle to be the 'old,' to be the one who is no longer courted. To be the one that no one tries any longer to please. [Édouard Manet]

Shame and doubt, the two great cripplers... [Édouard Manet]

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

The ultimate goal of the arriviste's aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the "thing" as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.

If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.

The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate, beyond this he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced he deserves it and above all that he deserves it in comparison with others. Good fortune, thus wants to be legitimate fortune.