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

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Be content to seem what you really are.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

My fat never made me less money.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

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.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

I love imperfections.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?