Stephen King Quotes

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty as a picture. (Who wants to be a cliché?) Pretty as an angel. (Can you see them?) Pretty as a butterfly. (But isn't that really just a glam bug?) Cliché, invisible, or insectlike, I grew up knowing I was pretty and believing everything good about me had to do with how I looked. The mirror was my best friend. Until it started telling me I wasn't really pretty enough.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

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.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

I don't have nothing to prove.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

There's always people out there that's like, doubting me, you know what I mean? Even though I do embrace the people that embrace me and I'm grateful for them. But I always feel like, man, there's still people out there that's not giving it up. And I feel like I'm doing everything the right way, you know what I mean? I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats - very few cheat codes that I'm using.

I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.

I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!