Mahira Khan Quotes

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

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

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

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.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.