Jaleel White Quotes

I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

I think I'm really feel I've done so much that I'm OK with not having everybody's attention. Sometimes it's overbearing. I used to think that I would never feel this way. Before, I used to buy all the tabloids and see if I was in them.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Know that you yourself are a miracle.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.