Martina Navratilova Quotes

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

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.

What I'm learning about myself is, no matter what the challenge is, I can overcome it.

I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

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 think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

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.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

You are doing better than you think you are.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

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