Ana Navarro Quotes

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.'

Looking good is the best revenge.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

To have someone inspire you to be who you are and be unapologetic about it, it's beautiful.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

I'm proud of me, and I am who I am.