Malachi Kirby Quotes

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

I would like to do my own daily talk show. Wisdom is the gift of ageing; no young person can have or buy it. My success was and is self-evident. I'm alive. I've lived. I've thrived and have grown as a person. I'm now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that?

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

What gives you strength at any circumstance is your understanding of yourself.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

I know who I am and what I do.