In a world that often judges us by external standards, it’s essential to anchor ourselves in the truth of our own intrinsic value. Knowing our worth isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity for mental well-being and personal growth. This comprehensive collection of 186 ‘know your worth’ quotes is a collection of wisdom, insight, and empowerment, carefully curated to remind you of your inherent worth.
- “Know your worth, then add tax.” – Unknown
- “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
- “Never forget how rare you are.” – Unknown
- “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Refuse to accept another’s estimation of yourself.” – Alison Stormwolf
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Never undervalue who you are.” – Unknown
- “Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.” – Maya Angelou
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.” – Alysia Harris
- “Your worth is not what you have, but who you are.” – Unknown
- “Believe in your worth, and don’t let people belittle you.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.” – Glenn Beck
- “You find your worth within yourself.” – Unknown
- “If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.” – Unknown
- “Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone, don’t be someone else, just be yourself.” – Selena Gomez
- “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.” – Rashida Rowe
- “Know your worth. People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.” – Kanye West
- “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.” – Malcolm X
- “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.” – Brian Tracy
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
- You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “You deserve exactly what you settle for.” – Unknown
- “Act like you expect to get into the end zone.” – Christopher Morley
- “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.” – Wayne Dyer
- “You, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” – Wendy Wasserstein
- “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Jung
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
- “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “When you know your worth, you move different.” – Unknown
- “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Ian Wallace
- “You attract what you believe what you’re worth.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
- “The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.” – Marianne Williamson
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
- “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “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
- “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” – Joe Paterno
- “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
- “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
- “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
- “He who understands himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu
- “You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards
- “Self-worth is so vital to your happiness if you don’t feel good about you, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.” – Sandy Hale
- “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
- “If you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” – Sidney J. Harris
- “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 Dostoevsky
- “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
- “When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.” – Ace Antonio Hall
- “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
- “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Your problem is you are too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
- “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” – Ayn Rand
- “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
- “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James
- “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” – Dr. Robert Anthony
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
- “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
- “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
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.” – Sarah Dessen
- “You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” – Ram Dass
- “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer
- “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck
- “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
- “Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” – John Herschel
- You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “You are enough, a thousand times enough.” – Atticus
- “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.” – Ellen Sue Stern
- “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Your time, energy, and love is very valuable. Pursue relationships with people who know your worth.” – Unknown
- “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou
- “Remember, you’re not half of anything, you’re twice of everything.” – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
- “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” – Brené Brown
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
- “Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
- “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” – Robert Tew
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
- “You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” – Sekou Andrews
- “Self-worth comes from thinking that you are worthy.” – Wayne Dyer
- “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” – Lecrae
- “Never lower your worth for worthless people.” – Unknown
- “As I began to love myself, my relationship with everyone changed.” – Kim McMillen
- “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell
- “There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.” – Bob Anderson
- The best gift you can give to yourself is to invest in your personal development.” – John Assaraf
- “When you start seeing your worth, you’ll find it harder to stay around people who don’t.” – Unknown
- “Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
- Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
- If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Unknown
- “Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.” – Karen A. Baquiran
- “The worst thing you can do to yourself is to judge and compare yourself with others.” – Galit Breen
- “I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.” – Emma Watson
- “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
- “Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “When you refuse to settle for less than the best…the best tends to track you down.” – Mandy Hale
- “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” – Vironika Tugaleva
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.
- “If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism.” – Cornelius Lindsey
- “As you love yourself, life loves you back.” – Kamal Ravikant
- “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.” – Beyoncé
- “Self-worth is everything. Without it, life is a misery.” – Julie Walters
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
- “Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
- “You attract what you believe you deserve.” – Andre Gide
- “Never underestimate yourself. You are more than enough.” – Unknown
- “Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.” – Christina Grimmie
- “A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.” – Jean de La Bruyère
- “Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.” – Teresa Mummert
- “If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” – Tim Fargo
- “Value yourself for who you are, not what you have.” – Unknown
- “Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
- “Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.” – Unknown
- “Self-care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia
- “Acknowledge your own self-worth – your confidence will stem from it.” – Nicole Alyse
- “The moment you know yourself, you have known the most precious thing in existence.” – Osho
- “Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!” – Gabby Douglas
- “What you allow is what will continue.” – Unknown
- “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Self-worth is something you tell yourself you have. You don’t need to prove it to anyone.” – Sonya Parker
- “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “You must know that you are great. Never forget that.” – Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
- “You are not your mistakes: they are what you did, not who you are.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
- “When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.” – Dave Pelzer
- “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
- “Never settle for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas Edison
- “I am worthy of the best things in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.” – Louise Hay
- “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” – Les Brown
- “The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.” – Swami Sivananda
- “You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brené Brown
- “You must not be afraid to sparkle a little brighter, darling.” – Kirsten Kuehn
- “Self-respect knows no considerations.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Don’t waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is, you don’t need any of those things if they were built on a lie.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” – Louise Hart
- “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
- “There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself.” – Sam Kao
- “You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” – Viola Davis
- “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “When you know your worth, nobody can make you feel worthless.” – Rashida Rowe
- “Until you know your worth you’ll continue to seek other people’s approval just to feel good about yourself.” – Sonya Parker
- “Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.” – Leon Brown
- “When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change.” – Lalah Delia
- “Know your worth, hold your own power, be you.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
- “Stop underestimating yourself.” – Michelle Obama
- “You deserve to be the leading character in the story of your life.” – Kerry Washington
- “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani
- “Recognize your inherent worth and the worth of others.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “You are enough exactly as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular.” – Solange Nicole
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason
- “Once you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.” – Rashida Rowe
- “Your self-worth grows when you fight for something you love.” – Robin Sharma
- “Value yourself, not by what you do, but by who you are.” – Gabby Bernstein
- “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman
- “You must see your own worth before others can.” – Tess Calomino
- “Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.” – Sherry Thomas
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Gautama Buddha
- “Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.” – Mandy Hale
- “We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis
