Libby Trickett Quotes

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

What I've found is that every time you have that uncertainty, if you face it, walk through it, you grow as an individual and gain confidence.

I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.

I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.