Beverly Sills Quotes

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

The time to embrace your magnificence is now.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

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.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

You alone are enough.

I am totally okay on my own. I don't want to have to have a man to feel whole. It's not that I need that to feel like I have a full life. No, I have a full life.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

When we find comfort in knowing that all the love and support we need is housed inside us, we can honestly share that joy with others without needing anything in return.

I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I am who I am. I do what I do.

Just keep being me, just keep doing me, stay true to who I am and the ball will find me.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.