Quotes About Self-image

Some cosmetic enhancement is obvious. A lot of times, the people who aren't talking about it are the ones who look horrible.

I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

People with a good opinion of themselves tend to enjoy a double life.

Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures.

Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.

Jedina važna cena je ona koju sami sebi pripisujemo. Ukoliko sebi odre?ujemo previše nisku cenu i svet ?e se sa njom saglasiti. Ali ako prikažemo sebe u najboljoj svetlosti, svet ?e i tu našu procenu sebe samih spremno prihvatiti

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is. If we absorb hour upon hour of images and messages that don't reflect our magnificence, it's no wonder we walk around feeling drained of our life force. If we tune in to dozens of acts of brutality every week, it shouldn't surprise us that our children see violence as an acceptable way to resolve conflict.

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

You humans love mirrors. You have to constantly make sure you still have the same face. Nothing scares you more than if someone changes it.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned.

Some people born to be fat.

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.

Your worth is determined by you, and with no need for an explanation to anyone. And your worthiness, a given, has nothing to do with your behavior and feelings. You may not like your behavior in a given instance, but that has nothing to do with your self-worth. You can choose to be worthy to yourself forever, and then get on with the task of working on your self-images.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1 —NEVILLE

If I don't have a story, I won't have to live up to it.

How do you want to be perceived in this world? Anyone who responds that they don't care at all is trying to live with blinders on—a rather unbalanced style, to be sure.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1