Self Worth Quotes

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

You are the honoured guest,Do not weep like a beggarFor pieces of the world.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

I've never really been wanted.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

I would not be a rose upon the wallA queen might stop at, near the palace-door,To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.