Quotes about Self-worth

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

You have to be someone.

Feelings of guilt will never motivate anyone to spend more time with God; in actuality, they will discourage you and make you feel like a failure. Guilt has the potential to totally snuff out whatever small flame there presently might be.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.