God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I always wanted to be loved.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

The self is hateful.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

I’m never nervous.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.