Gerard Butler Quotes

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

A woman can only be ugly from the inside. Any woman can be beautiful, if she is beautiful from within. It is the internal ugliness of this woman that reflects her looks.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

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

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.