Brene Brown Quotes

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

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.

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.

It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

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

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.

Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.

It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

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.

You are no better than you should be.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.