Quotes about Self-worth

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It's over; you're wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.

I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.

And I don't think you have that kind of time either. I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good enough at it, and I don't think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect.