Hillary Clinton Quotes

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.

If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?