The capacity to revere yourself as a genuinely good person. Valuing yourself is accepting yourself as the way you are. Self-regard is the capacity to be thankful for your apparent positive facets, as well as the negative facets, and still appreciate yourself. Individuals with strong self-regard know their assets and faults and feel relatively good about themselves, they have no trouble openly recognizing mistakes, or if they are wrong. One’s self-regard is based upon a strong awareness of character. At the other end of the spectrum are feelings of personal incompetence.