Introduction
Hey there! Don’t worry we all have moments when we feel like we’re not enough. But the truth is we all are unique, we all are worthy, and beautiful as you are. That’s why we’ve gathered and handpicked 190 inspiring quotes to help you embrace self-worth that can work as a supporter and reminder for you. Let’s dive in!
Quotes on Self-Worth
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barri.e
“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
“You were born to be real, not perfect.” – Ralph Marston
“Know your worth. Never settle for less than you deserve.” – Unknown
“Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.” – Wayne Dyer
“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.” – Glenn Beck
“You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor
“Be proud of who you are, not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” – Unknown
“Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.” – Paulo Coelho
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” – Beyoncé
“You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” – Unknown
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani
“The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly.” – Apoorve Dubey
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on.” – Maxwell Maltz
“You are a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do will never forget about you.” – Unknown.
Quotes on Self-Love
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” – Katie Reed
“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” – Unknown
“Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.” – Unknown
“Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.” – Unknown
“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Robert Holden
“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” – Les Brown
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
“To love oneself is the beginning of a journey to self-discovery.” – Unknown
“Be the love you never received.” – Rune Lazuli
“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” – Wayne Dyer
“Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” – Unknown
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
Quotes on Confidence & Overcoming Doubt
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“Fear is the enemy of progress. Push through, and confidence will follow.” – Unknown
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Doubt is only removed by action. If you’re not working, then that’s where doubt comes in.” – Conor McGregor
“Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” – Michelle Obama
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly.” – Stewart Stafford
“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
Quotes on Positivity
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman.
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin.n
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Each day provides its gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius.
“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley.
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H. Schuller
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
“A positive mind finds opportunity in everything.” – Anonymous
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
“Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.” – Unknown
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
“Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.” – Unknown
Quotes on Boundaries & Self-Respect
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” – Brené Brown.
“Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal, and necessary.” – Doreen Virtue.
“Your boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.” – Gerard Manley Hopkins.
“Saying ‘no’ is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation.” – Unknow.n
“The right people respect your boundaries. The wrong ones manipulate them.” – Unkno.wn
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious.” – Anna Taylor.
“Sometimes you have to make peace with not being everyone’s cup of tea.” – Unknown.
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much, there’s nothing else you can give.” – Karl Lagerfeld.d
“Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.” – Cecilia Tran
“You can’t change how people treat you, but you can change how you react to it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Boundaries are not meant to keep people out but to protect what is sacred within.” – Unknown
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” – Unknown
“Saying ‘no’ to others is saying ‘yes’ to yourself.” – Jack Canfield
“No is a necessary magic. No draws a circle around you with chalk and says I have given enough.” – McKayla Robbin
“Don’t be afraid of losing people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone.” – Unknown
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” – Prentis Hemphill
“Be so rooted in your self-worth that others’ words cannot shake you.” – Unknown
“You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.” – Unknown
“The moment you set boundaries, you’ll see who was only there because of what they could take from you.” – Unknown
“A lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect.” – Unknown
“When you prioritize yourself, you allow space for the right people to enter your life.” – Unknown
Quotes on Strength & Resilience
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee.
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis.
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey.
“It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien.
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” – Albert Camus
“Tough situations build strong people.” – Unknown
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli.
“Scars show us where we have been, but they do not dictate where we are going.” – David Rossi.
“Strength is not about how much you can handle before you break; it’s about how much you can endure after you’ve been broken.” – Unknown.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran.
“Resilience is not about how you endure. It’s about how you recharge.” – Shawn Acho.r
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
Quotes on Individuality & Self-Acceptance
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“You were born to be real, not perfect.” – Unknown
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
“Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.” – Suzy Kassem
“You are entirely up to you.” – Unknown
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
“You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.” – Robert Greene
“Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves too.” – Unknown
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.” – Brené Brown
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” – E.E. Cummings
“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” – P.T. Barnum
“You change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono
“Never apologize for being yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
“Be yourself; the world will adjust.” – Unknown
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” – David Carradine
“Do not trade your authenticity for approval.” – Unknown
“Your uniqueness is your greatest strength.” – Unknown
Quotes on Avoiding Comparison
“Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” – Jon Acuff
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Unknown
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin
“Be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy.” – Unknown
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” – Marquis de Condorcet
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick
“Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to others.” – unknown
“You were not born to fit in, you were born to stand out.” – Dr. Seuss
“The moon doesn’t compare itself to the sun. It shines in its own time.” – Unknown
“Your journey is yours alone. Stop comparing it to others.” – unknown
“The only time you should look back is to see how far you’ve come.” – Unknown
“Don’t waste your energy comparing yourself to others. Invest it in becoming a better version of you.” – Unknown
“Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – Unknown
“When you stop comparing, you free yourself to be truly happy.” – Unknown
“There is no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others be inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” – Unknown
“Don’t let comparison steal your joy and progress.” – Unknown
“We won’t be distracted by comparison if we are captivated by purpose.” – Bob Goff
“Run your race. Who cares what others are doing?” – Unknown
“Your path is unlike anyone else’s. Honor it.” – Unknown
“No one is you, and that is your power.” – Dave Grohl
Final Self-Worth Quotes
“You are worthy of the love you keep trying to give to everyone else.” – Unknown.
“You are powerful, beautiful, brilliant, and brave.” – Unknown
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
“Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” – Unknown
“Self-worth is everything. Without it, life is a misery.” – John C. Maxwell
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.” – Unknown
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“Never measure your self-worth by what other people think you should be.” – Unknown
“The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, it starts feeling like one.” – Unknown
“Self-respect knows no considerations.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman
“You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things that add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
“Know your worth. Then add tax.” – Unknown.
More Quotes!
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“Do not undervalue what you are merely because others do not see your worth.” – Unknown
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
“Worry less about fitting into the world and more about creating your own.” – Unknown
“You don’t have to be better than anyone else. Just be better than you used to be.” – Wayne Dyer
“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” – Bohdi Sanders
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” – Brené Brown
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
“We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
Bonus Quotes!
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.” – Unknown
“Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
“You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. McIntyre
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.” – Unknown
“People learn how to treat you based on what you accept from them.” – Wayne Dyer
Conclusion
I hope these 190 inspiring quotes help you embrace self-worth and find its way to your heart to remind yourself whenever you feel not worthy. Remember, we all deserve love, respect, and happiness.
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