Roxane Gay Quotes

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

I never think I have to prove something.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

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

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

I don't have to prove anything.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.

I have nothing to prove to anybody.

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.