Raquel Welch Quotes

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I can live with myself.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.