Pete Townshend Quotes

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

I love what I do, and I always make sure to tell my fans I'm not perfect, so don't think I am. I make mistakes. I'm human, and we all are. But I try to be the best I can be, and that's all I really can do.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.