Lauren Alaina Quotes

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I know who I am. I'm proud of my journey.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

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

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

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.

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

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

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.