Quotes About Self-worth

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

I keep getting asked how I write about such smart, strong women, and my response is, what's the alternative? Weak, stupid women? They're just normal people, not role models - if you're aspiring to be like any of them, something's a little bit wrong. You may want to dress like one or have her job, but do not aspire to be her!

My hope is that Unbreakable will inspire women to believe in themselves, to value themselves and to know that asking for help does not mean you are weak.

'Pretty' is such a weak word.

This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.

I play football, but at the end of the day, it doesn't define me.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I don't think of myself as a lesser player.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?