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Self-worth Quotes

A carefully curated collection of self-worth quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

"You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise."

-- Maya Angelou

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."

-- Maya Angelou

"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."

-- Maya Angelou

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things."

-- Maya Angelou

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it."

-- Maya Angelou

"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."

-- Maya Angelou

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."

-- Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."

-- Maya Angelou

"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-- Maya Angelou

"I'm a very humble person, but I'm also very proud of my achievements."

-- Cristiano Ronaldo

"As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

-- Bertrand Russell

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."

-- Steven Furtick

"You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

-- Judy Garland

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history."

-- Scott Belsky

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

-- Suzy Kassem

"If you choose education even when you have nothing, you can go from being a nobody to becoming a person of value."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Learn to live in this world with self-respect."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

-- William Shakespeare

"Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?"

-- Confucius

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A carefully curated collection of self-worth quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

Some of the most celebrated self-worth quotes come from Confucius, William Shakespeare, B. R. Ambedkar, Suzy Kassem, Scott Belsky, among many others featured on this page.

Popular self-worth quotes include: "Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?" -- Confucius Also: "Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting." -- William Shakespeare.

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