Quotes About Self-worth

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

I know you have been looking for someone to listen to you, to believe you, and no one helped; they all blamed you. You believe you are bad. That's not true!

As though my self-esteem wasn't low enough from years of abuse, try as I might, I couldn't even get forgiving right!

healing comes down to forgiving yourself—knowing you deserve to be respected, you deserve to be loved.

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents' idea of success, and you'll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

We want new clothing, more clothing, pretty clothing, because rather than looking at clothing as something to cover the shame of our nakedness, we view it as a sign of status, a source of happiness, or a way to compete or show off.

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

First life lesson: know your fucking worth. When you're about to sell your soul to the devil, get a better price.

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

L'envie est une déclaration d'infériorité.

You don't need to explain me who am I, I know that I am best in my own way.

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect--not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

If my aim is to prove I am "enough," the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.