self-worth quotes

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

My fat never made me less money.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

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

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.