Janet Mock Quotes

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

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.

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

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.

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

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

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I am better than my reputation.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

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

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

Ego is good.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.