Laurie Graham Quotes

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can't be anything for anyone else if I'm not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

Don't worry about people knowing you. Make yourself worth knowing.

I am who I am and, you know, I've done the best I can with what I've been given.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, 'You need to be something other than you are.'

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.