Quotes About One's Self Worth

#1. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

T.D. Jakes

#3. One's self-worth comes from how one chooses to navigate that space.

Paul Beatty

#4. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

#5. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Joe Hill

#7. Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.

Dan Pearce

#8. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#9. Stop making your self-worth conditional on other people. No one, and I mean absolutely no one has the power to devalue your existence.

Elissa Gabrielle

#10. But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and I was beautiful, just the way I was. And girls like me needed gorgeous clothes too.

Alessandra Thomas

#11. It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them

Anne McCaffrey

#12. In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

Tami Hoag

#13. Feelings are real. They often become one's reality. But they are not always based on truth.

Jesikah Sundin

#14. Controllers want to prove that their perspective is the correct one. That proves that they are right - as a matter of self-worth, not just of accuracy. Controllers equate being right with being effective.

Fred Kofman

#15. You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Karen Salmansohn

#16. The insanity has to stop ... It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.

Ashley Judd

#17. Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can.

Steven Pressfield

#18. Self-worth: the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.

Heather Gunter

#19. There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Marianne Williamson

#20. Knowing ourselves is knowing our worth in the eyes of God. That's why the number one thought we cannot fail to think and believe is that He loves us. Always. No matter what.

Toni Sorenson

#21. Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

Stephen Covey

#22. In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

Albert Einstein

#23. Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left ...

Vera Brittain

#24. When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

David W. Earle

#25. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

Alexandra Stoddard

#26. No one's ego is worth feeding if it means starving your self-esteem.

Auliq Ice

#27. But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Monica Lewinsky

#28. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Evan Thomas

#29. I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

Flea

#30. My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves.

Veronica Blade

#31. The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Roger Rosenblatt

#32. When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Toni Sorenson

#33. Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims' hearts and minds. "You're not worthy" is one of them.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#34. This is what she hated about hot guys. That warm and fuzzy feeling she got when one of them anointed her as worthy.

Kate Meader

#35. We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?

Steve Goodier

#36. I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes

I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might

I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined

I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.

Sanober Khan

#37. The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.

Alexander McCall Smith

#38. One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Wole Soyinka

#39. One's own self or material goods, which has more worth?
Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?
He who loves most, spends most,
He who hoards much loses much

Laozi

#40. I know my self worth. I'm the one making the deposits.

Cora Blu

#41. If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

Melina Marchetta

#42. All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

Liza M. Wiemer

#43. Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

Wayne Dyer

#44. To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

David Bayles

#45. I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.

Richard Hatch

#46. This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism's single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that it became possible to convince us that we are not just incapable of self-preservation but fundamentally not worth saving.

Naomi Klein

#47. As every organizer knows, the first step to empowerment is the recognition of self-worth and the identification of one's interests with that of others. Political mobilization depends on this.

John Restakis

#48. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

John Burroughs

#49. Every one has a level of influence that can be harnessed for greater good

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#50. Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

Brennan Manning

#51. Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#52. That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one's own source, the Heart.

Ramana Maharshi

#53. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.

Nic Sheff

#54. The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Paul Gauguin

#55. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Virginia Woolf

#56. When you know your worth, no one can dictate your value.

Andria Gaskins

#57. You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person could truly love you. If you overly love yourself, no one's love will be good enough, and the world will seem pale and cold.

Michael Brent Jones

#58. There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Shirley Maclaine

#59. I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one.

C. JoyBell C.

#60. The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

F.H. Bradley

#61. Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#62. Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent.

Cornel West

#63. The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

#64. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Sasha Azevedo

#65. Anger, regret, resentment, blame, worry, and guilt all lead to one place: fear. Don't let that fear stand in the way of recognizing your true worth.

Charles F. Glassman

#66. The whole world is not worth one soul.

Francis De Sales

#67. You're growing and that scares people, it frightens the shit out of them because they know if they don't step up within themselves you'll move forward with out them. When this happens, don't you dare settle to suit the mould - have courage to live without one.

Nikki Rowe

#68. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.

Melanie Shankle

#69. Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!

Israelmore Ayivor

#70. Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.

Stacy Charter

#71. You are an irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind, amazing being. There will never be another you and this fact alone makes you infinitely and absolutely valuable. Having absolute value means you cannot be diminished by anything or anyone. You are bulletproof and nothing can change your value.

Kimberly Giles

#72. Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
(Casual Chance, 1964)

Colette

#73. Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Quincy Jones

#74. One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don't have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#75. Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

Terrence Real

#76. Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved.

Elizabeth Cox

#77. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

A.B. Simpson

#78. It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Mark Twain

#79. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#80. In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self-worth.

Mark Nepo

#81. Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster