Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Just stay true to myself. That's not even my goal. That's what you always have to do, 'cause at the end of the day when the cameras are off and you put your phone down, you got to live with yourself, be comfortable and sleep at night with the decisions you've made so I'm just always myself unapologetically.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

Responsibility for me is to be myself - which is not perfect.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

I've made my peace with myself.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.