Quotes About Self-worth

Animals do not view freezing as a sign of inadequacy or weakness, nor should we.

You're born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it's so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,' or something nice that keeps you thinking you're still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time that we exist, we will in fact no longer be there

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

You could get my father to state, in all seriousness, that one of his problems is that he isn't half as pleased with himself as he has every reason to be.

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Tucker is on a roll. It usually takes two beers for him to like himself but tonight he only needs half a can.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

He liked to believe he mattered.' Grace smiled, thinking privately, we all do.

Don't make excuses for shitty people. You can't put a flower in an asshole and call it a vase.

Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my fatherís clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My motherís sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: