Viola Davis Quotes

I think it's really important to treat yourself with respect because sometimes people can get down on themselves

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

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

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

I can live with myself.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.

I'm just not self-deprecating.

I have so much self-acceptance.

You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.

You're never as good as they say you are, you're never as bad as they say you are. That's a quote I live by.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?