Sandra Cisneros Quotes

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.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

No one will believe in you until you believe in you.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

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.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

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.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Know your power.

A man is always better than he thinks.