Self-Worth Quotes

Welcome to our collection of Self-Worth Quotes! In a world that often measures our value by external factors and comparisons, it’s crucial to remember the innate worth that resides within each of us. These self-worth quotes are here to remind you of your unique qualities, strengths, and the incredible potential that exists within you. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a dose of self-love, you’ll find a wide range of quotes on this topic that will empower and uplift you.

Feel free to explore these self-worth quotes and use them in any way that resonates with you. You can copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create beautiful and personalized reminders of your inherent self-worth. Embrace the wisdom and positivity these quotes offer as you embark on a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. Now, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of self-worth quotes!

Education brings a sense of confidence and self-worth to yourself. Manushi Chhillar

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor. Iskra Lawrence

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. George Weinberg

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn’t feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people’s pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself. Virginia Williams

I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom – how great is that? Soledad O’Brien

I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too. Kate Nash

My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, ‘Whelp, you’re gay? OK, cool.’ Jillian Michaels

Boxing’s a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don’t think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good. Carl Froch

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it’s about self-worth. Vic Mensa

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself. Kris Carr

A lot of my self-worth is based on what I do. And if you take that away I just mope. Simone Giertz

The fact that people want to learn from you gives you confidence as well, especially if someone in an IPL dressing room that you respect comes up to you and asks how you do something. Your self-worth starts to improve. Jos Buttler

Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that. Mick Hucknall

That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age – to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me. Iman

As a musician you’re always your own worst critic and you’re always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things. Ben Howard

Being born into a Malayali family that followed a matriarchal system, I always felt loved and had a high sense of self-worth. Gita Gopinath

Being a 25 year old man with no money or job affected my sense of self-worth. Rejection became unbearable. Auditions weren’t just acting jobs, they were lifelines. Ncuti Gatwa

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control. Jessica Valenti

One’s own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That’s what the human family is all about. Wole Soyinka

It’s called ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ but it’s really not about crazy rich Asians. It’s about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding her self-worth through this journey back into her culture. Which, for me as a filmmaker, exploring my cultural identity is the scariest thing. Jon M. Chu

As much as I loathe this aging thing, I’m beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That’s been a good trade-off for the wrinkles. Patty Duke

You may be basing a portion of your self-worth on your bank account without even realizing it. Try to pinpoint the activities and qualities that, free of charge, fulfill you. Jean Chatzky

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free. KRS-One

I don’t have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have… and that’s been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain. Monica Lewinsky

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. Arabella Weir

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth. Yolanda Hadid

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy. Wayne Dyer

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. Dave Pelzer

I think that everybody has this kind of self-worth, like how they should be portrayed or presented. I always feel that I should rather be in a medium and be at the top of it, than just do small things here and there, and be forgotten. Sargun Mehta

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. Ferdinand Mount

I wasn’t always a minimalist. I used to buy a lot of things, believing that all those possessions would increase my self-worth and lead to a happier life. I loved collecting a lot of useless stuff, and I couldn’t throw anything away. Fumio Sasaki

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media. David Fahrenthold

It’s human nature – we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there’s this thing that isn’t choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth. Stephanie Labbe

My acting gives me my self-worth. Elizabeth Banks

Fashion can be extremely fickle so you need to work on your image, self-worth and confidence. Gok Wan

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them. Lea Thompson

Fighting was the only way I felt self-worth, with people thinking I was the best. Joseph Benavidez

When you get stuff for free, you have no self-worth. Stacey Dash

I’ve seen a lot of people in my life base their self-worth on what job they book or don’t book, what car they drive, or whether they can afford a house deposit or not. Rachel Shenton

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance. Mary Lambert

I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future. Olga Tokarczuk

If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth. David Oyelowo

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn’t just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn’t working – certainly not on anything I liked, anyway – and I started to do other things. Kiefer Sutherland

I don’t judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It’s a fun career deal, but it’s not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game. Tim Tebow

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we’re not psychic. At least I’m not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person’s sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance. Tony Goldwyn

Realizing that we’ve surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we’re always vulnerable to pain and loss. Martha Beck

I’ve never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself. Will Ferrell

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me. Mae Martin

Because it’s so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, ‘likes’ and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art – or even into their own Web ventures. Neil Strauss

It seems to me that Audrey will have sensed, very early in life, that self-worth, based on fame or beauty is very short-lived and so she remained forever her basic self: realistic, aware and caring. Robert Wolders

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. James E. Faust

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth. Anthony Carmona

When you get into your 40s, it’s all about lighting. It’s hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it’s all about what’s in your heart. Elisabeth Shue

I have a theory that confidence comes from self-worth. Sonya Deville

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you’re going to be like tumbleweed. You’re going to be blown. Stanley A. McChrystal

Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth. Heart Evangelista

I tied so much of my self-worth – and trust me, if you’re a runner, you understand this – to my performance. Mary Cain

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a ‘C.D.’ for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a ‘Chosen Dad’ who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives. Bernie Siegel

No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference. Musiq Soulchild

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don’t crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth. Kayvan Novak

You’re not going to get every part, so you can’t base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job. Autumn Reeser

But, clearly to me, what I’ve come to see is that that happened because I didn’t have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn’t feel that… I was worthy of being number one to a man. Monica Lewinsky

Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate. Chris Gardner

I know what it’s like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth. Prabal Gurung

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves. James Buchan

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. Jim Courier

I think being somewhat of a workaholic – and it’s not healthy by any stretch – but I think you place your self-worth on your career, and as far as I was concerned, my career was crap. Michelle Beadle

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone’s individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. Ma Jian

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. Tim Tebow

Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia – even during times of stress and fatigue. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth. Gugu Mbatha-Raw

If a person’s self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman who might challenge that claim to fame? Eileen Pollack

Lazy doesn’t exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can’t get up off their butt is just a person who’s depressed. It’s usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness. Jillian Michaels

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other. Carrie Preston

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet. Bob Saget

Over the years, I’ve interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I’ve ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth. Oprah Winfrey

I don’t have a strong sense of self-worth unless I’m doing something. Gwen Stefani

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you. Georgette Mosbacher

You have no idea how fragile an actor’s self-worth is. Elia Kazan

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever. John Barnes

I was on a path that could’ve really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music. Flea

Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students’ self-esteem. But it’s certainly not to inflate students’ sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. LZ Granderson

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. Mark Victor Hansen

I quickly developed this false narrative that my self-worth was directly related to how skinny I was or how I looked. Matthew Koma

I think if you’re young and you’re being compared with a successful family member, it’s really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility. Duncan Jones

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

If you’re going to do something, you should go all in and be absorbed in the process and want to do well and be OK with being really consumed by it. But at the same time, I guess the balance there lies in not letting the result define who you are as a person and your self-worth. Ellyse Perry

‘DWTS’ really made me feel confident, and has given me a lot of just self-worth within myself and realizing that I don’t need a man to be successful and that I could do a lot on my own, and have my own voice and have my own opinion. Cheryl Burke

I loved making ‘Rising Sun’. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. Tatjana Patitz

I think that we need to allow words to be words. If my self-esteem and my self-worth linger on words that are used to describe me, then you have a problem in itself. Philomena Kwao

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it’s through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth. Michael Morpurgo

So I think the biggest thing that I’ve learnt in my career is not allowing external factors to determine my self-worth – external factors being what coaches think of me, the amount of playing time I get – not allowing those things that actually are out of my control affect how I feel about myself. Stephanie Labbe

It’s just the most rewarding thing ever – being of service to other people. It gives you a sense of accomplishment, of self-worth, as opposed to looking at social media all day, which is just so crippling to your self-esteem and self-image. Carl Nassib

Media is not supporting me. They’re saying that I want to marry Imran Khan, but I’m already married. This is wrong. What about my self-worth? My identity? I am a social media sensation. I am a fashion icon. Qandeel Baloch

When I’ve lost weight, some fans get very upset because they want me to stay curvy. But my own self-worth and wellness regime has to do with my well-being and longevity, so if I make the choice to take care of myself, and the outcome is losing weight, it’s disappointing that there might be some backlash. Sara Ramirez

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. William J. Clinton

I never read reviews – I never have. I’ve never read message boards, either. I’m just not interested in it in any way – I’m not interested in it inflating my ego, and I’m not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don’t read them. Kate Levering

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not ‘naturally’ in charge as men. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Playing tennis, I didn’t tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches. Martina Navratilova

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I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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