Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

I take great pride in being who I am. Whether I'm broken or not, I am who I am.

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

All makeovers should be about enhancing who you are.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

As long as I'm always myself, my looks don't matter.

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

Bey's mantra isn't about putting on airs or makeup. For that matter, what makes Beyonce Beyonce is that thing we can all wake up with: confidence.

I need to just be Iskra, and I've got to believe in me, or else no one will.

If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can't be anything for anyone else if I'm not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

There's nothing wrong with being yourself.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

I think we are moving to that place where we are being celebrated for our character, our inside, our wit. I think that's the direction we should go because that's what defines you as a person, not a number on a scale.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.