Huma Qureshi Quotes

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

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.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

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.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'