Quotes About Self-perception

If you don't see your own value, don't expect others to as well.

I don't know if he'll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.

Neil Mars?! I could blame him for having killer looks but he could not be faulted for this. He couldn't have chosen that name for himself. No wonder he tortures his Mom by calling her by her name.

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

The commonest symptoms of this fear are: The tendency to slow down and develop an inferiority complex at the age of mental maturity, around the age of forty, falsely believing one's self to be "slipping" because of age. (The truth is that man's most useful years, mentally and spiritually, are those between forty and sixty).

The habit of speaking apologetically of one's self as "being old" merely because one has reached the age of forty, or fifty, instead of reversing the rule and expressing gratitude for having reached the age of wisdom and understanding.

80 to 90% of people think that they are above the average (and the median) in many things.

Every man believes himself to be quite different

those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future

We see flaws in others and not in ourselves.

Whatever you do, just don't be a dog claiming to be a wolf.

Of all the judgements we pass, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. I recall discussing the issue

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.