Charles Dickens Quotes

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

I want people to realize that they matter.

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

Every man is of importance to himself.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.