Quotes About Self-value

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

I'll be worthless.

When you value yourself enough to reject a bad situation, you are being powerful, and that power will motivate you to find a better job.

Self-worth equals net worth.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

Thinking little of yourself is not humility.

You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.

Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you'll stay a 3rd class citizen.You're better than that.

I choose to value myself, to treat myself with respect, to stand up for my right to exist.

But to look to others as a primary source of our self-value is dangerous: first, because it doesn't work; and second, because it exposes us to the danger of becoming approval addicts.

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general.

I am closer to who I want to be when I am alone lately. With people, I hear my voice and I just wonder who or what I'm doing all this for. Spreading myself out in front of people. Devaluing my ostensible worth by being so readily available to almost any random pedestrian who wanders into the crosswalk of my focus. If someone is within an earshot I shoot off at the mouth.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will demand or expect more than you are able or willing to give. This is the precise moment they will choose to call in the loan.

Letting it matter too much. If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again.

No, you also matter. A lot." As tears came to her eyes, she ducked her head and blinked fast. That was what had been missing from her relationship with Gerry at the end, she realized: She had not mattered any longer to him, and since his death? She hadn't mattered to anybody—including herself. If you were loved, if you had people who cared about you, you could be by yourself and never feel alone. But if no one cared? You were isolated even in a crowd.

She was so much more, so much better than a stolen orgasm or two with a man that she should be handling with BBQ tongs and a fire extinguisher.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself

I am important, though, she insisted to herself.