Self Worth Quotes

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

You deserve love and you'll get it.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

I'm not a centerfold.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Realize how good you really are.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient. I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

You get the most approval when you care the least about it.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

To belittle, you have to be little.

I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.