Quotes About Self-worth

Why let Angela call me something that I'm not? Or let her tease me? Bad enough the kids at school kick my heart around

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.

How much of you is left for your husband? To the person you will spend the rest of your life with. How worthy is it going to be?.

Lulabell realized that to Beto, she was nothing more than an inventory of body parts and labor-intensive regional dishes.

Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it, you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

The moment someone tells you you're not good enough, is the moment you know you're better than them.

At first I asked myself—why would God talk to me? I'm not special. But then I thought—why not me? Maybe that's the point. What is history if not a mass grave filled with the bodies of followers of Special Men?

Who are you trying to protect, punish or please by not succeeding?

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

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.

Man abides in truth. As one prizes truth, so one cherishes oneself. Whoever betrays truth, betrays himself. We speak not of lies here, but rather of acts against convictions.

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

Kendimize isimler vermeyelim, yapt???m?z i?lerle varolal?m, bunun d???nda kalan bütün sahte unvanlar?, kurumlar?, insan?n kendini üstün bir ?ey saymas?na yolaçan düzenleri yok sayal?m...

Bazen ne yaparsan yap yaranam?yorsun. Ve yaranamad?kça yaralan?yorsun.

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

Evet, aletle ö?ünmek, diyor Turgut buna. Bir vidas?n? bile siz yapmad?n?z, bu kadar gururlanmaya ne hakk?n?z var? diye tepiniyor.

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give—and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them. I

When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine!

even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give-and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.