Quotes About Self-perception

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

He thinks he's all aces but he's mostly sevens and eights.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

and what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink?

But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.

But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching others, the artist tells himself that his creations are things of deathless beauty, the soldier tells himself he is on the side of the angels.

After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow whos got delusions of adequacy?

it hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart! -

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

I struggle with the fact that who I am has often been hidden behind stories that I tell myself derived from my perceptions of others' thoughts, statements, actions, or indifference.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.