Clayton Christensen Quotes

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

In terms of self-esteem and confidence I think I'm generally quite healthy.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

I feel like every game is an opportunity to prove myself as a guy who is kind of underrated.

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

I'd say I'm the best 19-year-old ever, and I still feel that way at 21.

That's something that I have to work on: Self-confidence and loving myself.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

Women love to impress and be their best.

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

The key to being confident is taking care of yourself and feeling like you're the best you can be.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.