Justine Skye Quotes

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

You should seek approval from yourself.

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.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

You alone are enough.

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it's extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.

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

Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.

I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

I don't need a man to tell me he loves me; I don't need this industry to tell me it loves. I love myself.

You have to really be on your own side.

I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.