Quotes About Self-value

You worry too much. You think you have to do too much. Like you think you're always just about to make some terrible mistake. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn to dump the tanks. There's nothing wrong with making coffee for me or walking the dog. It's nice. But I get a feeling you're doing it because you always feel like you need to do more. To be more. Like if you don't make yourself useful, you're not entitled to the air you breathe.

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think

To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise? 

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

If I don't treat my own projects with respect, then how can I expect others to? If I don't treat myself with dignity, then how can I expect the people around me to treat me, or even one another, with dignity?

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

You need to see everything else—everyone else—as expendable, as less than yourself.

must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

This sense of dignity.

Everyone know that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school. Seriously, everyone knows it. You never hear someone say, "Oh, wow, you're seventeen and you really like him? That's great, you should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means wrecking your whole like.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

Which means what?" I demanded. "That I'm nothing? That I'm not a person? That you can do anything you want to me and it's okay? You're so full of it! But you're wrong. I know that I do matter. I am important. And you're a pathetic, cold, pointless wastoid who's going to grow old alone and die, then roast in limbo forever.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

Only help her to know—help make it so there is cause for her to know—that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

Jedina važna cena je ona koju sami sebi pripisujemo. Ukoliko sebi odre?ujemo previše nisku cenu i svet ?e se sa njom saglasiti. Ali ako prikažemo sebe u najboljoj svetlosti, svet ?e i tu našu procenu sebe samih spremno prihvatiti

Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

I desire no man's regard, Mr. Rashleigh, on such terms as must sink me in my own.