Bess Myerson Quotes

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

It's been important for me to realize that, in every experience, I feel like I can learn something, grow and get stronger.

I want to become better, I don't want to let my mistakes define me.

I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I’m glad I learned from it.

You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.