Quotes About Self-image

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

The way you eat defines how you look to yourself, but the way you speak defines how you look to others.

You're FAT - and don't try to sugarcoat it, because you'll just eat that, too.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

What you think of yourself is what you will be.

If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.

However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist's valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn't care what other people thought of me.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Now Violet had let herself go until she could barely make it out of the house to buy her Oreos and booze. But if you looked closely, beneath the folds of flesh ravaged by bitterness and drink, you could see the lovely creature she had been, and what she had been then was just as bitter and vindictive as what she was now.

Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

Basil Pennington suggests that the core of the false self is the belief that my value depends on what I have, what I can do and what others think of me.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.

Time magazine found in a 2000 survey that 19 percent of Americans thought they were in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, and another 20 percent expected to be in the future. "So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top i percent, he was taking a direct shot at them," wrote David Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.3

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.