Self-Worth Quotes
Never Forget How Much You Matter
Your worth isn’t something you have to earn by being perfect, pleasing everyone or constantly proving yourself. It belongs to you even on the days when you don’t feel especially confident or accomplished.
These self-worth quotes for women offer reminders that your value isn’t determined by someone else’s approval, expectations or opinions. They encourage you to appreciate who you are, respect your needs, recognize your strengths and stop allowing outside voices to define how you see yourself.
Some of these words may feel like encouragement. Others may give you something deeper to think about. Let them remind you that valuing yourself isn’t selfish or arrogant. It’s part of learning to treat yourself with the same respect, patience and kindness you would offer someone you genuinely care about.
Featured Quotes
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Above All Else, Respect Yourself
Beauty Is About More Than Looks
Different Not Less
Do Not Allow Others To Define You
20 More Self-Worth Quotes for Women
These self-worth quotes for women are reminders that you are valuable just as you are. Return to them whenever you forget how much you matter.
You are your best thing.
Toni MorrisonNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor RooseveltI am different. Not less.
Temple GrandinI am my own muse.
Frida KahloYour playing small does not serve the world.
Marianne WilliamsonI am enough.
Author UnknownI deserve the best, and I accept the best now.
Louise HaySelf-respect is the root of discipline.
Abraham Joshua HeschelI’m not afraid to be seen.
Author UnknownThe most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself.
Diane von FurstenbergOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.
Brené BrownHow can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! It’s beyond me.
Zora Neale HurstonTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar WildeYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Sharon SalzbergFind out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly PartonYour story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
Michelle ObamaI will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
Jane AustenLighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne LamottTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
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