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There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
JCF von Schiller
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
Steven H Coogler
You've got to love yourself enough to make yourself a priority.
Dr Phil McGraw, on his tv show, an episode about healthy living (see works by Phil McGraw , also known as Dr Phil )
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American publisher (see works by and about Malcolm Forbes )
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US abolitionist and clergyman
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American law professor
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
Edgar Z Friedenberg
Dignity and Respect has to do with what you are ready, willing, and able to accept within yourself and in accepting to be able to give others. It is your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.
Gail Pursell Elliott, The Dignity and Respect Lady (see works by Gail Pursell Elliott )
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they
are.
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American publisher (see works by and about Malcolm Forbes )
It is important to receive what you think your services are worth. If you do not value your time and energy then you cut yourself off from your flow. When you are in your flow things happen easily and effortlessly and you get great results. Feeling disconnected from your flow happens firstly because you are giving your subconscious the message that you are worth less. Secondly it happens because this will inevitably generate feelings of discontent or resentment which also disconnect you from your flow.
The essential message here is: if you are in paid employment it is better to be paid less for doing something you love and are good at than more for doing something you do not like doing very much; and if you are in business then it is better to have one client paying you what you are worth than two who do not. You know it makes sense.
Steve Nobel
Only offer your work to those who value it. Otherwise you will feel devalued. Always honour what you do. This is so then others will see the value in what you do. Always give your best. This will steadily increase your sense of self-worth. Know that people are not only paying for the service they are receiving, they are also paying for your enthusiasm, passion, and joy in what you are doing. So the more you feel passionate about what you are doing the more others will feel it and the greater your opportunity for joyful financial reward.
Steve Nobel
If you are not clear what you have to offer is worth, neither will other people. Hoping that other people will see your value before you do is false hope. It is not up to other people to guess how much you are worth. The message here is that you must know your self-worth and then other people will know it.
If you do not feel worthy then you have probably accepted some very limiting ideas about yourself. These ideas exist now in how you think about yourself, your strengths or lack of them, and your goals, or lack of them. Issues of worthiness are not about what happened to you in your past. It is not about your childhood or your adolescent years. The child and adolescent still exist in you now. A lack of self-worth comes from what you tell yourself is true about you in the present.
Steve Nobel
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
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