Quotes About Self-image

I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.

I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

As individuals, we don't sometimes let ourselves enjoy things that we possibly should because of ways you want to be perceived, which is a silly thing as well.

The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party validation. The amateur is tyrannized by his imagined conception of what is expected of him. He is imprisoned by what he believes he ought to think, how he ought to look, what he ought to do, and who he ought to be.

If your husband's self-image needs a makeover, be patient. The answers don't come overnight when a long-held pattern of thinking has to be broken. But you can appropriate the power of God to fight the enemy that feeds him familiar lies, so your husband can be free to hear His truth. Remember that God will reveal glimpses of the key to breaking any of your husband's bad habits. As you pray for your husband's self-image, He will show you how to pray.

Pam is petite, a bristly little chihuahua of a human being. She is the only woman I ever met who claims to be ten years older than she actually is so everyone will tell her how young she looks.

And second, once we are caught in the pattern of creating ourselves from cultural blueprints, it becomes a primary way of receiving validation. We become unknowingly bound up in a need to please the cultural father--the man holding the brush--and live up to his images of what a woman should be and do. We're rewarded when we do; life gets difficult when we don't.

And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.

If, on the other hand, your experiences have been those of being harshly criticized, ridiculed, ignored, abused, or made to feel inadequate, then you're likely to experience low self-esteem.

equivalent of a supermodel. It was kind of intimidating. Larissa's

I have a bunch of crap in my hair just so I can look nice, and I'm wearing shoes that are going to cripple me. I

It's all to do with the way you carry yourself, the way you face the world.

Yet she was an odd little thing, sturdy and round with thick shapeless legs beneath an equally shapeless dress, and with her fine fair hair bobbed in the latest style she had only succeeded in exaggerating the squareness of her appearance. The thought of cutting her hair into that unattractive basin style was horrifying to Phoebe

The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.   And

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

You've had a tough crack at life, I'll give you that. But you don't got to let the bad thrown at you become the ugly you think you got to be.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

Reparations, on the other hand, require black Americans to embrace a self-image of weakness and take on the cloak of a broken people.

I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.

I'd really done it now. I'd come to camp planning to be special. Now I was special. I was probably the biggest liar that Camp Pinetree had ever seen.

You're a watcher, aren't you?" Peter said. "I can tell. You watch and listen. But you know what I'm betting. The thing you can't see so clear is yourself." I was startled. Here I was, trying to come up with something to say about the weather, and he said something real. "What do you mean?" I asked. "You don't walk like a girl who knows how pretty she is, for one thing. That's a crying shame.