Quotes about Worth

We hear a lot today about identity theft. The greatest identity theft is not when someone takes your wallet or steals your credit card. The greater theft happens when we forget who we really are, when we begin to believe that our worth and identity come from how well we stack up compared to others, instead of recognizing that each of us has immeasurable worth and potential, independent of any comparison.

Leadership is affirming people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Because the church is a formal organization made up of policies, programs, practices, and people, it cannot by itself give a person any deep, permanent security or sense of intrinsic worth. Living the principles taught by the church can do this, but the organization alone cannot.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. • • • Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Leadership is communicating to another their worth and potential so clearly they are inspired to see it in themselves.

We saw our natural role as being to affirm, enjoy, and value him. We also conscientiously worked on our motives and cultivated internal sources of security so that our own feelings of worth were not dependent on our children's "acceptable" behavior.

I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

If our sense of emotional worth comes primarily from our marriage, then we become highly dependent upon that relationship.

Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.