Worthy Quotes

“Self-confidence is the belief in your abilities as a person. Self-worth is the belief in your value as a person.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“It takes courage to be the real you, and it’s also the only path you’ll ever find to true freedom. It takes risk to be the real you, and it’s also the only possibility of experiencing true purpose. It takes vulnerability to be the real you, and it’s also the only place you’ll experience true love. Showing up in this world as ALL of who you are tastes like freedom.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Self-confidence is what you show on the outside. Self-worth is what you feel on the inside. Self-confidence is based on mastery. Self-worth is based on identity. Self-confidence is what you can do. Self-worth is who you are. Self-confidence is believing you’re skilled enough. Self-worth is believing you ARE enough. Self-confidence fluctuates based on your environment. Self-worth is stable through every environment. Self-confidence is fragile. Self-worth is foundational. Self-confidence is the belief in your abilities as a person. Self-worth is the belief in your value as a person. Self-confidence is “I’m striving to earn love.” Self-worth is knowing “I am love.” Self-confidence gives you drive. Self-worth gives you peace. Self-confidence is optional. Self-worth is essential. Self-confidence eventually surrenders. Self-worth ultimately prevails. Self-worth is your foundation. Self-confidence is the house you build on top of it. Your house will only ever be as secure as the foundation it’s built upon.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“When we courageously take steps toward unlearning the lies and gaining awareness of the truths, and assessing the impact of living our lives in ways that are inauthentic, disconnected, numb, people-pleasing, and out of alignment with who we truly are, we begin our journey of going from unseen to seen. From invisible to visible. From disconnected to connected. From doubting ourselves to trusting ourselves. From craving love to realizing we already are . . . love.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“You don’t become what you want. You can have the greatest heart desire, and really work so hard, so hard, so hard. But if you don’t believe you are worthy, it will not come. That is the magic formula.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. — CARL JUNG”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Self-worth is the internal, deep-rooted belief that you are enough and worthy of love and belonging, just as you are. On the other hand, self-confidence, while also an internal trait, is generally linked to your assessment of how you compare to the outside world.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Our setbacks are almost always setups for what we’re called to do next in our lives.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“When we don’t believe we are enough as we are, attention starts looking like love, external significance starts looking like success, and validation starts looking like worthiness.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Showing up fully and revealing who you truly are with the intention of connection and love is very different from confusing attention with love and trying to reveal things in hopes of calling for attention. Showing up authentically in hopes of true connection is very different from ploys to get attention in hopes it will lead to a feeling of validation or significance.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“The Process: The Four Rs to Transcending Rejection Reveal: Identify your current default definition(s) you give to rejection/failure when it happens. Or the one(s) you use to talk yourself out of even trying. These are often disempowering and happen automatically without intention. Redefine: Create new, empowering definitions that you’re going to assign to rejections/failures when they happen or when you’re tempted to not try, out of fear of them happening. Revisit and Reframe: Revisit and reframe rejections of the past. Assign new meanings to these past rejections/failures that still feel significant in your life. Revel: Revel in rejections ahead! They no longer faze you! Think: Dear rejection, you might be big, but my resiliency is bigger!”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“When you change your relationship with rejection and failure, you change your entire life.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Everything in life simply carries the meaning we attach to it. That meaning creates the emotions we feel around it. And the emotions we feel then create our life experience. When you change the meaning you assign to something, and truly believe that meaning, everything shifts. Disappointment becomes divine trust. Self-loathing becomes gratitude. Rejection becomes resiliency. Self-worth solidifies.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“We can decide if we turn our pain into purpose. and view our most challenging setbacks as setups in our lives, where we use what we went through, in the spirt of service and purpose, to now help others make it through too. To honor the grace given to us and pass that grace along to someone else who might need the grace that our experience can offer.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Grace is real and it's all over our lives. It's in the whisper that tells you to watch out, and in the moments, you've felt unconditional love in your life. It's in the protection that didn't let you stray off course for long and kept you safe when you did. It's in the closed door you tried so hard to pry open, only now to be so thankful it didn't.
The lucky break you got out of the blue, the person who believed in you even when you didn't have the experience.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“There is nothing you can do or say or be that could ever make you unworthy of love. I believe we are all here to love. To receive it, to give it, to live it, to be it. And our greatest journey on this earth is to learn how and to truly believe we’re worthy of it.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“When you change what you believe you’re worthy of, you change your entire life.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“we are not our past mistakes, we are our present and future intentions.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“You’re not crazy, you’re just first.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“I believe the lesson we need to learn will present itself to us again, over and over, until we finally fully get it.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“You’ve healed too much to not raise the bar on who has access to you. — CATHY HELLER”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“If a belief costs you your peace, it’s too expensive.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself. — MARIA SHRIVER”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“If you’re like me, you’ve been called words like strange or odd or crazy or [fill in the blank], and if you haven’t yet, you might experience being called them when you start showing up fully as who you are. Try replacing these words with words like first or trailblazer or visionary or brave or unique or one-of-a-kind because they actually begin to impact who you believe you are.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“I’ve never been afraid to march to the beat of my own drum and I’m starting to really like the sound of it. — TRENT SHELTON”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“People don’t have to understand you or believe in you to connect with you. They just have to believe you understand you and you believe in you.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“standing all alone, authentically, is less lonely than standing with others who have no idea who we truly are.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“every single person who has ever been brave enough to go after a dream, to share their talents or gifts with the world, to build a business, to become a thought leader, or to help move humanity forward in any type of positive way has faced countless rejections and failures. Every single one. They’re just the brave ones willing to keep going anyway.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

“ONE OF THE greatest parts of your journey to believing you’re worthy is learning to stop hiding. Learning, for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, the courage to start raising your hand. Or to be the person who leads and encourages others to raise theirs.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life