Bill Cosby Quotes

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.

You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

I see myself as what I'm worth.

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

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

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.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I don't always understand my worth.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I want people to realize that they matter.

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.