Sally Field Quotes

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 feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Ego is good.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

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 finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.

If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.