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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I’m ugly.

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

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

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.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I love women with attitude.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

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

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

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

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

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.

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

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.