Martin Sheen Quotes

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

The only one who can beat me is me.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.