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Quotes About Self-perception

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.
~ William Shatner
Clothes are not a frivolous subject, and the conversation around them should not be belittled. How we dress affects what we feel, what we do, and who we are.
~ Sinead Burke
It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.
~ Aimee Mullins
I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.
~ Nnamdi Asomugha
It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.
~ Tyler Perry
Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.
~ Tyler Perry
It's all about lovin' not only who we see in the mirror, but what we feel about ourselves when we look in the mirror.
~ Tyra Banks
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
~ Unknown
Social media draws us further into the already persistent habit of becoming stars of our own little personal movies. The movies we replay in our heads — held on to from lives past — cause us to recycle stories that no longer serve us, if they ever did.
~ Unknown
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
~ Van Morrison
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
~ Vanna Bonta
If you were money, would you hang out with you?
~ Vicki Robin
Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character.
~ Amit Abraham
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
~ Herman Melville
What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
~ Boonaa Mohammed
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
~ Clay Aiken
The better you look, the more you see.
~ Unknown
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
~ Martha Beck
You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .
~ Rumi
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~ Helen Rowland
Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
~ James De La Vega
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
~ Anne Lamott
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
~ Renee Vivien
Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.
~ Phyllis Diller