Tim Tebow Quotes

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I wanted my faith to look the same to everyone else and to be the same for me regardless of what was going on - whether I was on the Super Bowl podium holding the trophy or when I was being benched two years later and people saying that I would never play again.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

If winning or losing is going to define your life, you're on a rough road.

Letting goals in doesn't look great to myself.

One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my identity. When things on the field went well, I was cheerful and felt important. When things went poorly, my countenance and self-concept plummeted, and I was not pleasant to be around.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.