Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth. I was more than that of a gymnast.

I always felt I was good enough to be competing and I wanted to express myself in the best way that I can.

You can still have a very strong sense of who you are and be successful in this industry.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

I know who I am and what I do.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Art helped give me confidence.