Jazz Jennings Quotes

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

The only person I've got to prove to is myself.

At the end of the day, the way I go about it is don't let somebody else's opinion of you define who you are. Don't let other people's thoughts or whatever it is be true.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

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

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Don't change for nobody.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

MS doesn't define who I am.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.