Walt Whitman Quotes

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

People see us as no better than we are.

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.