Eve Ensler Quotes

Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from winning the Super Bowl.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

My success is not who I am.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I'm better than Olivier.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I live or die by how well I act.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I am a one success man.