Nigel Pearson Quotes

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I can live with myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

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

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me