Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

People see us as no better than we are.

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

I don't think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

I see myself as what I'm worth.