Dakota Fanning Quotes

At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

One of my sayings is: look good, feel good, do good.

I don't really compare myself to anyone. Growing up, sure you have your favorite players or guys you try to emulate, but I'm just trying to be the best me I can be.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

So my mom really taught me to be fearless and I love her! She's just so much fun! She is completely the reason why I am a personality and a success to myself today.

I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated.

I feel everyone should feel empowered to live their best life.

The only person I've got to prove to is myself.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

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

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'