Jimmy Walker Quotes

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.

My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

Usually I feel kind-of normal and lame, and then I'll go to the coffee shop and someone'll say, 'You rock!' And then I'll remember how awesome I am.

Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.

I am proud to be a Richie.

I've lived my whole life trying to prove that I'm worthy of being a part of something because I never really felt that.

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.

I don't wait for someone to appreciate me for what I am doing.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.