Raquel Welch Quotes

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.

I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

As long as I know what I'm playing, I shouldn't concern myself with others' footage.

The only person who can help Balotelli is Balotelli.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Forget what everybody says. I know what I want to do and what I need to improve on. Nobody needs to tell me.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.