Lesley Nicol Quotes

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

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

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What makes me special?' and I started to find most of my value in the fact that I was thin.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Know thyself.