Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
SOPHIA LORENYou really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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