Brooke Shields Quotes

I am so much more than what happened to me. I'm a mother and a businesswoman; I run a charity that supports others overcoming adversity; and, most importantly, I'm happy.

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

Be a victor , not a victim.

I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.