Kinky Friedman Quotes

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I don't let people affect me.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.

By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.