William Arthur Ward Quotes

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

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.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

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

I'm not interested in someone's credits. Let me see who you are, and tell me a story of your life.

We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'

Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.

Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

I never confused what I had with what I was.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.