I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don’t want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

I’m secure in who I am. I don’t need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I’m comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I think it’s important to show people, especially young people, that it’s okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.

I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences… be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.

I’m no savior, and I’m no Robin Hood.

I think I had set-backs, but I still always had that belief that I was going to play for Tottenham Hotspur. Even when I went out on loan to clubs, it was always to come back and be a Spurs player.

It changes everything when you accept who you are and you don’t try to change yourself.

I think I have always known it, but I didn’t really know there was a name for it, or that it was different, but I have always felt inclined towards women. I have felt inclined towards men – not as deeply or sexually as towards women – but I’m definitely attracted to men.

I sweat a lot.

I’m quite annoying and can’t imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself

I embrace the fact that I’m a big guy. I think it’s important to love yourself and be comfortable in your own skin.

I’m not fat. I’m fluffy!

Believe it or not, I’ve got a really bad metabolism. One burger, and I’m done. I’m not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

Only through sufering can we find ourselves.

Remorse.– Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Embrace your uniqueness and stay true to yourself, because you are enough just as you are.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn’t see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I’m older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.

I love the way I look. I’m fine with it. And if my body changes, I’ll be fine with that.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disinfecease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

You are completely responsible for everything that happens to you.

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

We might as well be true with ourselves

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods

I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave

I’m 97% sure you don’t like me. But I’m 100% sure i don’t care.

Every man for himself

I’m not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I’m definitely an individual.

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

That moment when you realize not everyone is going to like you, it’s a nice one.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all

He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.

Whatever you are, be a good one

This is who I am.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you’re not? It’s so much more fun to be yourself.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

No matter how much success you have, no matter how many opportunities, fame, fortune, no matter how many accept you to your face, the person that really needs to accept you is you.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I’m trying to do. 

Winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don’t win only strengthen me.

I’m very, very competitive.

I allow myself to fail, I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me

Don’t be a drag. Just be a queen.

At the end of the day you won’t be happy until you love yourself.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn’t have a fear that I wouldn’t be good enough in England.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

Choose people who lift you up.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.