Cleo Moore Quotes

I was always mature for my age.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

I better know how to take care of myself.

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I know how to look after myself.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

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 do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.