Top 200 Self-Worth Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

— Brené Brown

52. “I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

53. “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

— Malcolm X

54. “Compete with yourself, not with others.”

— Sophia Amoruso

55. “It is not the critic who counts.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

56. “If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.”

— Bernard Hopkins

57. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

58. “I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”

— Marilyn Monroe

59. “No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.”

— Denis Waitley

60. “Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

— Marcus Aurelius

61. “There is more in you than you think.”

— Kurt Hahn

62. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

— Abraham Lincoln

64. “Every person is born with a seed of greatness.”

— Myles Munroe

65. “Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.”

— T.D. Jakes

66. “There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.”

— Les Brown

67. “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

68. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

69. “Being single doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you’re strong enough to wait for what you deserve.”

— Niall Horan

70. “My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”

— Anthony Hopkins

71. “Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

— Brené Brown

72. “Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

— Dale Carnegie

73. “You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.”

— Denzel Washington

74. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

75. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

76. “Learn to live in this world with self-respect.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

77. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

78. “Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

79. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

— Oscar Wilde

80. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

81. “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.”

— Brené Brown

82. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

83. “You were born not to be just fine.”

— Mel Robbins

84. “Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.”

— Brian Tracy

85. “Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.”

— David Viscott

86. “What one can be, one must be!”

— Abraham Maslow

87. “I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.”

— Louise Hay

88. “Love yourself and you can heal your life.”

— Louise Hay

89. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”

— Virginia Satir

90. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

— Maya Angelou

91. “The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

92. “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

93. “I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I’m not the man I once was.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

94. “The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

95. “I accept myself unconditionally right now.”

— Louise Hay

96. “You show your worth by what you seek.”

— Rumi

97. “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

98. “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.”

— Sylvester Stallone

99. “What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

100. “If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you’re above them.”

— Bella Thorne