Quotes about Self-worth

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.

The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

But when you know who you are in Christ, you no longer need to be threatened by people or compete with them, because you are already secure and loved.

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?