Quotes About Self-worth

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

It took me months or maybe a year to understand that there are so many cheap men out there who would ask you to 'compromise' or 'oblige.'

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

I don't need others to validate my good conduct.

It doesn't matter how I conduct myself or what I wear or how I speak or where I sit or what I do. That does not allow anybody to harass me.

Education brings a sense of confidence and self-worth to yourself.

If you're happy, if you're confident, that's all that matters.

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.

I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.

People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

I don't let people say mean things to me! I don't surround myself with people who'd want to do that.

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.