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Quotes About Self-perception

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.
~ George R.R. Martin
Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.
~ George Whitefield
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~ Gerald Brenan
Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
~ Thomas Hardy
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.
~ Anonymous
It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
~ Alice James
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
~ Cindy Crawford
I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.
~ Connie Chung
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
~ Nikolai Gogol
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
~ Hermann Hesse
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
~ Andre Gide
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~ Sally Field
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
~ Agnes Whistling Elk
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
~ Ethel Barrett
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
~ Margaret Anderson
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
~ Mary S. Almanac
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
~ Anthony Trollope
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
~ Sally Field
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.
~ Sophia Loren
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.
~ Anonymous
Ja! - Teška rije?, koja u o?ima onih pred kojima je kazana odre?uje naše mjesto, kobno i nepromjenjivo, ?esto daleko ispred ili iza onog što mi o sebi znamo, izvan naše volje i izvan naših snaga. Strašna rije? koja nas, jednom izgovorena, zauvijek vezuje i poistovje?uje sa svim onim što smo zamislili i rekli i sa ?im nikad nismo ni pomišljali da se poistovjetimo, a u stvari smo, u sebi, ve? odavno jedno.
~ Ivo Andri?