Valuing Yourself Quotes

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths and weaknesses. You make the changes you can in your life and let go of the things that aren’t in your power to change. You learn that every part of you is valuable. And you realize that all of your thoughts and feelings are important, even when they’re painful or difficult.”
― Ellen Bass, Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have ceased to serve us, we can still love ourselves with them. In appreciation of our survival, we can be awed at how our resources brought us through, even when these resources were things like indifference, a wall of rage, a cold heart…We learn to embrace ourselves as humans with faults and problems.”
― Maureen Brady

“If only I could value myself more! Alas! It is impossible.”
― Marcel Proust

“My task in being the authentic me—being who I was created to be requires that I value the Word of God and what it says about me more than I value what I or others say about me.”
― Sandra C. Bibb