Quotes about Self-value

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

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.

The degree to which we have developed our independent will in our everyday lives is measured by our personal integrity. Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk." It's honor with self, a fundamental part of the Character Ethic, the essence of proactive growth.

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on. But this is very much the same as if you should be grieved because those who have lived before you did not praise you.

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

Your value is not determined by your valuables