Quotes About Self-image

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

Every dog in their home feels like a lion, until a real lion walks in." Giovanni Gambino

Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right—but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

I began to understand that self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

self esteem isn't everything. it's just that there's nothing without it

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Man is a true Narcissus; he delights to see his own image everywhere; and he spreads himself underneath the universe, like the amalgam behind the glass.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

Dieting is wishful shrinking.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape — isn't it?

I'm sexy and I mow it.

People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.

The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.

People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes in a human face is the record of that collision.

The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.

but there is no reason that black men should be expected to be more patient, more forbearing, more farseeing than whites; indeed, quite the contrary. The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.

The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened. One wishes they would say so more often.

All the white people she has ever met needed, in one way or another, to be reassured, consoled, to have their consciences pricked but not blasted; could not, could not afford to hear a truth which would shatter, irrevocably, their image of themselves. It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. --"The Negro Child—His Self-Image," in Saturday Review (New York, 21 Dec. 1963; repr. in The Price of the Ticket as "A Talk to Teachers," 1985)     Europe

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I'm very uncomfortable, mainly with my belly.

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable position to put yourself in... it's something that we all haven't really made our minds up about, and that's why we find it all so interesting.