Quotes About Self-perception

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.