Laurie Hernandez Quotes

I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

You can't compare yourself to anyone else. I try and use this advice daily. I didn't actually fully believe that until I was maybe 21 or 22.

Everyone grows at their own pace, and you shouldn't compare yourself to anyone.

I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody. If I'm worried about beating somebody else, I'm not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn't be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

I learned a long time ago through my dad that you shouldn't really compare yourself to others - just because that hampers how good you can be.

The learning from my entire career is: never compare yourself to anyone because it'll destroy you.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

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

I can live with myself.

I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.