Quotes about Self-worth
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
— Maya Angelou
You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.
— Maya Angelou
Let nothing dim the light that shines from within
— Maya Angelou
Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were, and I would answer generously, No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.
— Maya Angelou
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
— Maya Angelou
If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?
— Maya Angelou
She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, I'm with you, kid.
— Maya Angelou
The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.
— Maya Angelou
In later years I asked her if she loved me and she brushed me off with; God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you.
— Maya Angelou
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— Maya Angelou
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
— Maya Angelou
Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
— Maya Angelou