Top 200 Self-Worth Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

102. “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”

— Emma Watson

103. “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”

— Denis Waitley

104. “My thing is that I don’t give any person that much power over the path that I’m walking. Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.”

— Nipsey Hussle

105. “Success does not require you to look out the window, it only requires that you look in the mirror.”

— Eric Thomas

106. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe

107. “Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.”

— Boonaa Mohammed

108. “I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.”

— Louise Hay

109. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.”

— Zig Ziglar

110. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”

— Brené Brown

111. “Every man and every woman is a star.”

— Aleister Crowley

112. “Everyone is special in their own way.”

— Stephen Chbosky

113. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

114. “You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!”

— Brian Tracy

115. “I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

116. “God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.”

— Thomas S. Monson

117. “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”

— Mae Jemison

118. “The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.”

— Emma Watson

119. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.”

— T.D. Jakes

120. “You deserve happiness. You deserve to be loved just as you love others. You deserve everything.”

— Lily Collins

121. “I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.”

— Louise Hay

122. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

123. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

124. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

— Muhammad Ali

125. “But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

— Paulo Coelho

126. “If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”

— Alan Cohen

127. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

— Rumi

128. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

129. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

130. “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”

— Ralph Marston

131. “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

— David Foster Wallace

132. “Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from taking flight.”

— Brené Brown

133. “Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

134. “Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.”

— Buddha

135. “A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”

— Maya Angelou

136. “Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.”

— Swami Vivekananda

137. “If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”

— Robert H. Schuller

138. “Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.”

— Pema Chödrön

139. “The time is now, the person is you.”

— Nido R. Qubein

140. “Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.”

— Louise Hay

141. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

— Charles Bukowski

142. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

143. “I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

— Helen Keller

144. “Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

145. “I went from zero to my own hero.”

— Katy Perry

146. “Become who you are. Make what only you can make.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

147. “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”

— Rita Mae Brown

148. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

— Walt Disney

149. “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson

150. “All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.”

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.