Quotes About Self-image

you become what you think about most of the time.

Your self-image, largely determines your performance on the outside. Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior.

She became an obsessive runner and an anorexic. For nine years she barely ate. "When you have an inability to connect with people, and you feel shameful about yourself, the only power you have is over your own body. I couldn't speak up for myself, so this was the only way I could actually exert any influence over myself.

I don't feel less because I'm in the presence of a beautiful person. I don't go, oh, I'll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ....When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don't go, oh, I'll never be that fast!, I'll never be that strong!

Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.

The one thing you have to remember about labels is that they only matter if you let them stick.

It's Brian, please. I get a new gray hair every time a pretty girl calls me mister.

BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!

I'll give you a ten-thousand-dollar bonus if you can get them to stop calling me the 'Boy Billionaire.' It makes me feel like Bruce Wayne without the Batmobile. And I did just turn thirty-two. I hardly qualify as a 'Boy' anything.

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewelry and green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.

I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can.

I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'

Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

When I'm in really good shape, I like my butt. It's juicy - that's what my fiance says.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.