QUOTES ABOUT SELF WORTH

“The ninth gift is Reverence. May you
appreciate the wonder that you are and
the miracle of all creation.”
― Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts
of Birth“Never forget that once upon a time, in
an unguarded moment, you recognized
yourself as a friend.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Life is too short to waste any amount
of time on wondering what other people
think about you. In the first place, if
they had better things going on in their
lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around
and talk about you. What's important to me is
not others' opinions of me, but what's
important to me is my opinion of myself.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated
against, but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me. How can any
deny themselves the pleasure of my
company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
“We cannot think of being acceptable to
others until we have first proven
acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X
“I have no right to say or do anything
that diminishes a man in his own eyes.
What matters is not what I think of him
but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a
man in his dignity is a crime.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Sometimes the hardest part of the
journey is believing you're worthy of the
trip.”
― Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
“You can be the most beautiful person in
the world and everybody sees light and
rainbows when they look at you, but if
you yourself don't know it, all of that
doesn't even matter. Every second that you
spend on doubting your worth, every moment
that you use to criticize yourself; is a second
of your life wasted, is a moment of your life
thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so
don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw
even one of your moments away.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“As long as you look for someone else to
validate who you are by seeking their
approval, you are setting yourself up for
disaster. You have to be whole and
complete in yourself. No one can give you that.
You have to know who you are - what others
say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff
“My hands tend to be full enough dealing
with people who hate me for who I am.
Concentrate too hard on the millions of
people who hate you for what you are
and you're likely to turn into one of those
unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the
weight of the two hundred political buttons
they wear pinned to their coats and
knapsacks.”
― David Sedaris
“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he
is very conceited indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis
“It is difficult to make a man miserable
while he feels worthy of himself and
claims kindred to the great God who
made him.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Most lives are not distinguished by
great achievements. They are measured
by an infinite number of small ones. Each
time you do a kindness for someone or
bring a smile to his face, it gives your life
meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend.
The world would be a dismal place without you
in it. (tweaked version of a passage from
Scandal in Spring)”
― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
“I have realized; it is during the times I
am far outside my element that I
experience myself the most. That I see
and feel who I really am, the most! I
think that's what a comet is like, you see, a
comet is born in the outer realms of the
universe! But it's only when it ventures too
close to our sun or to other stars that it
releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots
brazen through the heavens! And meteors
become sucked into our atmosphere before
they burst like firecrackers and realize that
they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy
taking myself out of my own element, my own
comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the
unknown. Because it's during those scary
moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am
able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new
atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate
magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off
of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I
uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in
me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A
meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I
guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just
going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“A diamond doesn't start out polished
and shining. It once was nothing special,
but with enough pressure and time,
becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”
― Solange nicole
“I am not a little bit of many things; but
I am the sufficient representation of
many things. I am not an incompletion of
all these races; but I am a masterpiece
of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a
lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many
things. God did not see it needful to make me
generic. He thinks I am better than that.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I
have so little worth that my response does not
matter. With repentance, however, I
understand that being worth so much to God is
why my response is so important. Repentance is
remedial work to mend our minds and hearts,
which get bent by sin.”
― John Ortberg Jr., The Me I Want to Be:
Becoming God's Best Version of You
“Never let the opinion of another affect
your opinion of yourself.”
― Teresa Mummert
“Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't
mean pretty. If a person wants to be
pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk
pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody
take pretty from you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
“You've got to say what you mean and
mean what you say...Doubt in your voice
is an open door people will shove right
through.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
“I was beautiful; after all, my skin was
as rich and dark as wet, brown mud, a
complexion that any and every pale white
girl would pray for - that is, if she
believed in God. My butt sat high in the air and
my hips obviously gave birth to Creation.
Titties like mangoes, firm, sweet, and ready.
My thighs and legs were big and powerful,
kicking Vanna White and Cindy Crawford to
the curb.”
― Sister Souljah, No Disrespect
“It doesn't really matter who you used to be,
what matters is who you've become.”
― Robert Tew
“Just because you've made mistakes doesn't
mean your mistakes get to make you. Take
notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself,
and move on.”
― Robert Tew