Quotes By Victoria Principal

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

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