Fernando Pessoa Quotes

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

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

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

Every man is of importance to himself.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

It's what you're worth.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

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.

The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.