Kathy Ireland Quotes

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

I am fine because somebody's opinion can't become my reality.

I've just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can't control that.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

We aren’t here to be loved.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I think people are always going to say things about you or disapprove of your relationships or your ideals or your beliefs or something, but I think you have to stand up and stay strong in who you are and not let it affect you.

People can label me whatever they like. I don't really care any more.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

I don't care what people think anymore. I don't think I've got anything to prove.

I need to just be Iskra, and I've got to believe in me, or else no one will.