Donald Miller Quotes

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

I'm just more comfortable in my own skin now.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.