Joss Whedon Quotes

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I would rather have honesty and character than prestige and wealth. I can walk and ride the streets of this city, hold my head up, and look all men in the face.

You can lose money, and you can lose all sorts of things, but you can't lose your self-confidence.

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

I always hold my head up high.

Insecure people don't stage comebacks, since they don't leave the scene.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I know what it is like to lose your confidence.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.