Empowering Self-Worth Quotes to Inspire Your Journey

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone."

- Maya Angelou

"You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brene Brown

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. 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

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe in yourself and all that you are."

- Christian D. Larson

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"Seek to be whole, not perfect."

- Oprah

"Our worth is inherent, and; therefore, is never on the negotiation table."

- J.S. Wolfe

"There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life."

- Tara Brach

"The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth."

- Alan Cohen

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing."

- Tara Brach

"Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you."

- Steve Maraboli

"You’re allowed to be a work in progress and a masterpiece at the same damn time."

- Jess Sims

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

- Bindi Irwin

"I’ve learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world – our own self worth."

- Mark Nepo

"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it."

- Ram Dass

"Don’t let anyone dim your light. You were born to shine, baby!"

- Kirsten Ferguson

"You can’t hate yourself into change. Love yourself into greatness."

- Emma Lovewell

"Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

- Michelle Obama

"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist."

- Shaquille O'Neal

"Put your crown back on your head and remember who you are."

- Robin Arzón

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"Don’t be defined by other people’s expectations. Define your own strengths."

- Susie Chan

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

- Steve Maraboli

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

- Maya Angelou

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept."

- Anna Taylor

"You did not wake up to be mediocre."

- Robin Arzón

"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again."

- Osho

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress."

- Sophia Bush

"Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"

- Tara Brach

"You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breath. You are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"You are not here to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

- Mark Twain

"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"There’s no limit to what you can do."

- Adrian Williams

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

- Dr. Maya Angelou

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

- Cicero

"You are a rockstar. Treat yourself accordingly."

- Hannah Corbin

"Can I do this? Absolutely!"

- Cody Rigsby

"I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back."

- C. JoyBell C.

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

- Anna Freud

"You are not enough. You are everything!"

- Matty Maggiacomo

"You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Believe in yourself, and you’re halfway there."

- Callie Gullickson

"Know your worth, hold your own power, be you."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate."

- Kurt Hahn

"The more you value yourself, the healthier your boundaries are."

- Lorraine Nilon

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

- Napoleon Hill

"To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are."

- Anne Lamott

"Invest in yourself, it pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself."

- Tyra Banks

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"Your self-worth grows when you fight for something you love."

- Maxime Lagacé

"As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant."

- Nic Sheff

"Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are the architect of your own destiny."

- Swami Sivananda

"Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it."

- Jack Kornfield

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"We’re all about progress, not perfection."

- Selena Samuela

"Bring it. Build it. Become it."

- Sam Yo

"Embrace the beauty of uncertainty. It’s a place of infinite possibility."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

- Jack Nicklaus

"If you think you can’t, change your mind."

- Denis Morton

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"Everything you could possibly ever want, have, or need is right here inside of you."

- Kristin McGee

"Rise up and greet your higher self."

- Kendall Toole

"The numbers do not define you."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

"Don’t compare your chapter one with someone else’s chapter six."

- Ally Love

"Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway."

- Emma Lovewell

"They can knock you down, but they can never knock you out."

- Kendall Toole

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt."

- Alex Toussaint

"Challenge yourself, and be determined to thrive."

- Becs Gentry

"Sometimes you have to fight more than once to win it."

- Bradley Rose

"Dream it. Believe it. Receive it."

- Selena Samuela

"The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’"

- Marvin Phillips

"Own your body. Challenge your mind."

- Hannah Frankson

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

- Arthur Ashe

"Experience your own resilience."

- Mariana Fernández

"Don’t rely on compliments for confidence."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Feel good. Look good. Do better! … Trust the process."

- Alex Toussaint

"Limits only exist in your mind. If you want, you can do so much more."

- Tobias Heinze

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others."

- Bell Hooks

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."

- Rita Mae Brown

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness."

- Deborah Day

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

- John Joseph Powell

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Our first and last love is self-love."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first."

- Debasish Mridha

"The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."

- Malcolm X

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- André Gide

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

"As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering were only warning signs that I was living against my own truth."

- Charlie Chaplin

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself."

- Criss Jami

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Look for balance but always be willing to fall."

- Anna Greenberg

"You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred DeVito

"Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself."

- Sanhita Baruah

"What you have to give, the world needs."

- Aditi Shah

"There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone."

- Shannon Alder

"You have to grow, you have to be, you have to love yourself unconditionally."

- Dominic Riccitello

"Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip."

- Glenn Beck

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

- Wayne Dyer

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."

- Charles Bukowski

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings."

- Dr. Asa Don Brown

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."

- Blake Lively

"The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off."

- Robert Hand

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be."

- Avril Lavigne

"Accept who you are; and revel in it."

- Mitch Albom

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"You are capable of so much more than you think."

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"Your worth is not determined by the opinions of others."

"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious."

"You are a gift to this world, and you deserve to be treated with love and respect."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

"Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"You are worthy of the space you take up in this world."

"There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You are born worthy."

"You are worthy of the love and respect you give so freely to others."

"You are deserving of the love and respect you seek."