Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

You should never give up your inner self.

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

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

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

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Don't worry about people knowing you. Make yourself worth knowing.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

I wanted to find a way to intelligently argue that we should be valuing our own skills and talents instead of valuing the number of people we can get to look at us.

I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

So for my own survival and my growth, as a soul, as an artist and as an emotional being, it was best that I assume an identity I didn't have to fight anyone over or that I have to constantly engage in constant tug of wars and just reinvent myself.

I'm not afraid of who I am.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

I need to just be Iskra, and I've got to believe in me, or else no one will.

You have to know what your value is. I started learning my value when I was 12 years old.