Gloria Naylor Quotes

What really matters is what's on the inside.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

It is important to find worth in yourself.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

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.

My height is immaterial; it's my heart and mind which count.

You can have all the fame and all the money, but the important thing is the person. All the rest can help, but it isn't important.

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.

I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are.

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

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.