Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Winning the Gloves made me believe I was somebody.

I feel good with who I am and what I made of myself.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

I'm proud of everything I've done.

I am worth something and I will be big.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

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.

Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.

I want to prove myself.

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

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

Now, with all my world titles, I am very happy because I can say to all those people that what I chose to do was good for me.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.