Adam Rippon Quotes

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

I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

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.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.