Soledad O'Brien Quotes

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.

I don't operate in fear anymore.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

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.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

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

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

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place... until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.

There's always a way to pull back and discredit ourselves, but once you just shut that out and start doing it, you realize things about yourself that you never thought were possible.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself