Belief in Self Quotes

"You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you."

- Magic Johnson

"The best part of when you reveal your authentic self publicly is that it will allow those people around you, whether it's your teammates or people who you thought were friends, you will see their true colors come out. Some people who you might have thought would not be supporters end up being some of your biggest supporters."

- Jason Collins

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

- Napoleon Hill

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right."

- Henry Ford

"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within."

- Rummi

"You can be a victim of cancer or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset."

- Dave Pelzer

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have cancer. Cancer doesn’t have me."

- Marco Calderon

"When you read about the statistics/prognosis; remember that you are NOT a statistic, you are YOU and you are unique."

- Karen Kockelman Schultz

"The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Who you are is beautiful and amazing."

- Laverne Cox

"Cancer doesn’t have to define you."

- Nelda Blair

"You are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"Being LGBTQ…is just being."

- Matt Gowen

"Beyond binary. Beautiful truth. Biggest love."

- Clare Gowney

"Genderful and wonderful."

- Mercedes Lucero

"For me, the transgender thing is the reality of my life. It’s the reality of my existence and it’s something that I’ve come to believe is beautiful about me."

- Laverne Cox

"I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort."

- E.M. Forster

"I am not here to entertain straight people."

- Sarah Schulman

"Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you."

- P.C. Cast

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

- Quentin Crisp

"“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s OK.”"

- Laverne Cox

"You belong in this world."

- Connie Merasty

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined."

"I had cancer, cancer never had me."

"Remember: you're not dying from cancer . . . You're LIVING with it."

"I HAVE CANCER….BUT CANCER DOESN’T HAVE ME."

"Love is love."

"Be who you are."