Quotes About Self-perception

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.