John Steinbeck Quotes

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

You must know what you are capable of.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.

I know who I am and what I do.

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'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

A man is always better than he thinks.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I have a great sense of who I am.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet.

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

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.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

We are all more capable than we think we are.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.