Nicki Minaj Quotes

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I will never apologize for having a life.

I just worry about myself. I'm just gonna be me and do me. If people appreciate it, cool. If not, I'm gonna still be me.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

I am who I am, that's who I want to be, and that should be enough.

My lesson would be to not sell yourself to anybody else and stay true to yourself.

I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.