Quotes about Self-worth

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

It's not okay to be critical of yourself.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

The majority of prisoners suffered from a kind of inferiority complex. We all had once been or had fancied ourselves to be 'somebody.' Now we were treated like complete nonentities (The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)