Janet Mock Quotes

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

A man is always better than he thinks.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like, 'I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth'.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.

The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.

You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.

What the heck did people see in me?

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.