Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

I've always been able to fake my way into confidence. Sometimes I put my own fears aside to make sure I'm being of service to others. To clarify - hell yes, it was brave of me to step out in my lingerie for the commercial compaign, not because I'm plus-sized, but because I'm a human being. People get it confused. I'm brave because I'm not afraid of what people are going to say about me. It's not an easy thing to do, but it is something that I will always challenge myself to do. I don't want to be held back by my body because someone tells me I should.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

No one will believe in you until you believe in you.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

I never think I have to prove something.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

I'm not going to doubt my life.