23 Movie Quotes about Valuing Yourself (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 11, 2026

Memorable quotes about valuing yourself, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

Quote from Aladdin (1992)

2 There are more important things than comfort: self-respect.

Quote from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

3 There ain't nothin' in the world worth losin' your pride for. Life don't mean nothin' unless you can hold your head up high.

Mr. T as B.A. Baracus in The A-Team

4 I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people. I require the same from them.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

5 My personality doesn't lie right on the surface. The real me is deep. But I'm well worth all the time it takes to understand me.

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

6 You've got to say: I'm a human being, goddamn it. My life has value.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

7 Silly old bear. I love you all for what you are, not what you can do.

Christopher Robin in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 But you need to know that I love you, no matter what. And I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like that was something you had to earn.

Garry Marshall as Buck Cluck in Chicken Little

9 You're much better than you realize. You don't give yourself enough credit.

Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters II

10 And the last one, I think, was... to never respect anybody who doesn't respect you back. That right?

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood