Anna Quindlen Quotes

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.

As I have said many times - no 1 loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can't really love yourself, you can't love anything you do!

Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin makes me feel confident.

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

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

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.