Quotes about Self-worth
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.
— Toni Morrison
Any man who has to wear another man's name on the back of his shirt may need to ask himself how he views his own manhood.
— Tony Evans
But any time you have a thought in your head about you that didn't come from the heart of God, you're trespassing against your own body.
— Kris Vallotton
When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.
— Kris Vallotton
Every time we demean ourselves we are talking badly about the Artist and the Model.
— Kris Vallotton
Do not entertain the enemy's questions about how valuable you are.
— Kris Vallotton
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
— Albert Camus
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
— Toni Morrison
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
Women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.
— JM Coetzee
People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.
— JM Coetzee
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.
— Bishop TD Jakes