Quotes About Self-worth

My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

You can't please everyone.

Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you're pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain't, that's just part of the game.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

I think my whole life, I put a lot of energy into pleasing other people, and trying to make jokes, and trying to make people laugh.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

You always feel like you've got something to prove, whether it be to yourself or somebody else. I can think of plenty of people along the way telling me I'll be nothing, working at McDonald's, doing things like that. The whole time, you're just trying to prove them wrong.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others.

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.