Quotes about Self-worth

Because of the pressure to fit in and to please, we can find ourselves making decisions that don't align with our highest good. When we make decisions from the fear of being judged and/or rejected, we doom ourselves to this people-pleasing brand of decision-making.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God's child.

Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.

My mistakes didn't destroy the image of God that was inscribed in me, so my errors can't eliminate the reason why I have value in his eyes.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

For some of us, our feelings are an idol. If we feel beautiful, we believe we are beautiful. If we feel good, we believe we are good. If we live by our feelings alone, they will lie to us and it will not be long before we are led astray.