Quotes about Self-worth

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

Because of the pressure to fit in and to please, we can find ourselves making decisions that don't align with our highest good. When we make decisions from the fear of being judged and/or rejected, we doom ourselves to this people-pleasing brand of decision-making.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.