Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

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.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

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

You don't want to vilify your ego.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

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

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

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 couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.