Winona Ryder Quotes

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.

The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

I think it's really important to treat yourself with respect because sometimes people can get down on themselves

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

If you believe the good stuff that people say then you have to believe the bad stuff and then you allow yourself to be on a roller coaster of what other people think. So I think you try to find the good in the bad and the bad in the good and balance yourself and stay on an even keel.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.

I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Self worth cannot be verfied by others