Quotes About Self-worth

I tell you, kid," Deet said, "one day you'll grow up and then you won't be worth anything.

If your work is your self, when you cease to work, you cease to exist.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person.

The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare?   For this your locks in paper durance bound,   For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100   For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,   And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one. It's the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals . . . and what happens when you don't. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it's so easy to feel like you're failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one.

I won't risk it again. I won't destroy myself for you

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

As Thomas Gordon pointed out, 'Parents who find unacceptable a great many things that their children do or say will inevitably foster in these children a deep feeling that they are unacceptable as persons.' That doesn't change just because the parents remember to say soothingly, 'We love you, honey; we just hate almost everything you do.

Children need to be loved as they are, and for who they are. When that happens, they can accept themselves as fundamentally good people, even when they screw up or fall short. And with this basic need met, they're also freer to accept (and help) other people. Unconditional love, in short, is what children require in order to flourish.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment ... both of individuals and of humanity.

As a matter of fact, in our personal lives, as in the lives of all peoples, inferiorities are not to be considered as the source of all evil. Only the situation can determine whether they are assets or liabilities.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?