Quotes about Self-worth
We teach others how to treat us.
- Anonymous
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
- Lady Gaga
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do--they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
- Maxine Peake
Shame off you. Grace on you.
- Robin Jones Gunn
when the ambitious man whose slogan is "Either Caesar or nothing" does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
- Stephen Covey
He can't value you more than you value yourself.
- Toni Morrison
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Norman Vincent Peale