Quotes About Self

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

The mother of creation is vanity.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.