Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.

Not to sound cliche or like I'm reading something off the back of a Hallmark card, but with anything challenging you're going to do in life, the belief needs to start first from within.

I can't ever doubt myself. Never.

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

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

I have a lot of self-belief.

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

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

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.

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

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

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

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