Quotes about self-worth

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved. But don't do it again.

You glow differently when your confidence is fuelled by belief in yourself instead of validation from others.

The most creative act, is the act of creating yourself.

What a privilege it is to grow into someone I used to need.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because it was he; it was I.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.