Quotes About Self-image

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

But even in Curzon Street society, if you say, for instance, that you are a tough guy they will consider you a vulgar, irritating and objectionable person. Should you declare, however, that you are an inquisitorial and peremptory homo sapiens, they will have no idea what you mean, but they will feel in their bones that you must be something wonderful.

A modest fellow, this one," the septon said to Ser Lucas. "Were I as large as him, I'd call myself Ser Sefton the Immense. Ser Sefton the Tower. Ser Sefton with the Clouds About His Ears.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I dream that I'm beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That's what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that's happiness—no one noticing me. It's a happy dream.

When she told her doctor that she always wanted to keep her weight exactly the same as her IQ, he gave her a lecture on anorexia.

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

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.

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.