Self Worth Quotes To Boost Your Confidence

Having a positive sense of self-worth is an important part of reaching happiness within your life. Today, we have collected dozens of inspirational self worth quotes to give you a well-deserved confidence boost. 

How kind were you to yourself today?

Maintaining a high level of self-esteem and self-worth boosts your quality of life in so many ways. For example, when life doesn’t go your way you are less likely to beat yourself up about it.

With self-worth on your side, you can easily remind yourself that you are so much more than one mistake. You can keep moving forward without fretting over the past. 

Having a better relationship with ourselves is a goal that we all strive for. Be sure to read through the amazing self worth quotes we have featured below!

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Self worth quotes about accepting yourself

1. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley

2. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer

3. “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka

4. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

5. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay

6. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde

7. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay

8. “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” – James Baldwin

9. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Self worth quotes that will remind to love yourself more

10. “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

11. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

12. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day

13. “Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head.” – Victoria Moran

14. “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” – Beau Taplin

15. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

16. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

17. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung

18. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

19. “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.” – Wayne Dyer

Self worth quotes about not caring about the opinions of others

20. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey

21. “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” – Elizabeth Gaskell

22. “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields

23. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu

24. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer

25. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” ― Richard P. Feynman

26. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

27. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” ― Marianne Williamson

28. “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.” ― Marilyn Monroe

29. “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman

30. “Most people just want to see you fall, that’s more reason to stand tall.” ― Emma Michelle

31. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ― Aristotle

32. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

Self worth quotes about relationships

33. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt

34. “A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.” – Delilah

35. “People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.” – Lauren London

36. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

37. “I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?” – Shailene Woodley

38. “A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.” – Chogyam Trungpa

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Self worth quotes about following your heart/instincts

39. “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith

40. “Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.” – Bryant McGill

41. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

42. “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey

43. “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael

44. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu

45. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” – Cicero

46. “You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn’t feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice – it’s trying to protect you.” – Bryant McGill

47. “The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.” – Gisele Bundchen

48. “Follow the tugs that come from the heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going with.” – Victoria Moran

49. “The most confused we ever get is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie.” – Karen Moning

50. “At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda

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More self worth quotes and sayings

51. “Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.” – Roy T. Bennett

52. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.” – Brian Tracy

53. “I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no.” – Marya Hornbacher

54. “The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.” – Alysia Harris

55. “People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.” – Amit Abraham

56. “Realize that you’re here. You’ve made it. There’s nothing else required. Everything beyond the fact of your existence is just a bonus. Life is a playground.” – Kyle Cease

57. “Your sensuality is the source that carries your life’s highest value.” – Lebo Grand

58. “You will never be perfect, but you will always be enough.” – Trevor Carss

59. “Never let others define who you are because most are still trying to figure out who they are.” – Rodney Walker

60. “Love yourself enough to leave behind anything or anyone that no longer serves your best interest.” – Charles E Hudson

How would you describe your relationship with yourself?

Another way that self-worth brightens your life is that you are less likely to look for that validity from other people. Many people spend their whole lives chasing after the approval of others. As a result, they end up neglecting the opinion that matters the most: the one that they have of themselves. 

With high self-worth, you can believe in your dreams and goals without having to run to others for approval. As a result, you will have the confidence to go after them. 

Which of these self worth quotes and sayings is your favorite? Let us know your thoughts down below. We would love to hear from you!