Betty Ford Quotes

My personality doesn't interest me.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.