Chris Pine Quotes

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I don't need to prove myself through competition anymore.

I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

If you're confident in what you do, the compliment doesn't matter.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.