self-worth

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ec83719	Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.	defiant freedom inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring inspirational self-belief self-love society self-worth	C. JoyBell C.
ec7aed7	I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.	self-worth	Margaret Atwood
0f7c694	Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don't need the approval of others.	self-awareness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational self-worth strong	Roy T. Bennett
2ae16ef	Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.	humanity social-mores self-worth	Maya Angelou
3c3801e	"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." --	independence self-worth	Virginia Woolf
e6528f0	You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.	women self-worth	Toni Morrison
0561e32	I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.	relationships inspirational self-worth	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
f6bc078	Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)	faith inspirational self-worth	Lisa Kleypas
cdd802c	I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.	depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad	Charles Dickens
63c72df	I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...	feeling-alive fighting-for-self realization self-worth	Richard Wright
2a7d705	Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.	self-worth	James Fenimore Cooper
e9f8dc2	Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.	ourselves other-people opinions self-worth	Arthur Schopenhauer
f512299	If you think you are powerless, then you are	power-of-words self-worth	Monica Ali
3610317	I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.	loss life-lessons life getting-fired job-losses losing-hope losing-self employment careers learning-from-mistakes mistake self-worth mistakes failure human-nature	Gillian Flynn
290b664	Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?	self-worth	Margaret Atwood
3c16635	Every woman who chooses--joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of her own free will and desire--not to have a child does womankind a massive favor in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half of those new people we go on to create are also women--presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on, and on... While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost of her capabilities. To think otherwise betrays a belief that being a thinking, creative, productive, and fulfilled woman is, somehow, not enough. That no action will ever be the equal of giving birth.	women feminist self-worth	Caitlin Moran
27dacce	He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.	abuse-survivors strength overcoming-fear self-reliance escaping-abuse game-of-thrones self-worth	George R.R. Martin
1e5f9fe	Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!	love simplicity self-worth	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fe39a5e	True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.	ego being humility self-worth	Michael J Gelb
7a416a4	It's like a big circle. I've gone on a get-a-man crusade, but so far it's been a disaster and I'm feeling as bad about myself as I ever have. I know I'm a great person and all that, a good friend, but I feel like real bottom of the barrel girlfriend material.	self-worth	Ann Patchett
7c38c25	I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.	mother self-worth	Jonathan Tropper

ec83719

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

defiant freedom inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring inspirational self-belief self-love society self-worth

C. JoyBell C.

ec7aed7

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

self-worth

Margaret Atwood

0f7c694

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don't need the approval of others.

self-awareness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational self-worth strong

Roy T. Bennett

2ae16ef

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

humanity social-mores self-worth

Maya Angelou

3c3801e

"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." --

independence self-worth

Virginia Woolf

e6528f0

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

women self-worth

Toni Morrison

0561e32

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

relationships inspirational self-worth

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

f6bc078

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

faith inspirational self-worth

Lisa Kleypas

cdd802c

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad

Charles Dickens

63c72df

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

feeling-alive fighting-for-self realization self-worth

Richard Wright

2a7d705

Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

self-worth

James Fenimore Cooper

e9f8dc2

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

ourselves other-people opinions self-worth

Arthur Schopenhauer

f512299

If you think you are powerless, then you are

power-of-words self-worth

Monica Ali

3610317

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

loss life-lessons life getting-fired job-losses losing-hope losing-self employment careers learning-from-mistakes mistake self-worth mistakes failure human-nature

Gillian Flynn

290b664

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

self-worth

Margaret Atwood

3c16635

Every woman who chooses--joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of her own free will and desire--not to have a child does womankind a massive favor in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half of those new people we go on to create are also women--presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on, and on... While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost of her capabilities. To think otherwise betrays a belief that being a thinking, creative, productive, and fulfilled woman is, somehow, not enough. That no action will ever be the equal of giving birth.

women feminist self-worth

Caitlin Moran

27dacce

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

abuse-survivors strength overcoming-fear self-reliance escaping-abuse game-of-thrones self-worth

George R.R. Martin

1e5f9fe

Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!

love simplicity self-worth

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

fe39a5e

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.

ego being humility self-worth

Michael J Gelb

7a416a4

It's like a big circle. I've gone on a get-a-man crusade, but so far it's been a disaster and I'm feeling as bad about myself as I ever have. I know I'm a great person and all that, a good friend, but I feel like real bottom of the barrel girlfriend material.

self-worth

Ann Patchett

7c38c25

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

mother self-worth

Jonathan Tropper