Sidney Sheldon Quotes

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

I get this weird feeling that there's bigger things to do still, and I can't wait to figure it out.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one