Sharon Lawrence Quotes

It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

You have to believe in yourself.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.

I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.

You have to empower yourself.

You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.