Quotes About Self-perception

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

We often hate or ridicule something that we believe to represent an integral part of our selves, our own character that we dislike internally. It's a dichotomy that we can't and won't hate anything that is truly outside our element. We're surely our own worst critics.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Once you can open yourself up to the idea that your defectiveness is not a fact, the healing process can begin to work.

My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. "I'm honest," "I'm ethical," even "I'm the boss," or "I'm in charge," usually indicates just the opposite. Doesn't it?

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

If you're anorexic, you're doing it wrong." I swat him with a dish towel. "No, no, I mean anorexics look in the mirror, and even if they're eighty pounds, they still see a fat girl. I'm a hundred pounds heavier than I was in high school, my veins are full of creme fraiche, and yet I look in the mirror, take in the hair and makeup, and think, Damn, baby, you fiiine.

But ever since I made the decision to drop a few pounds-way less easy than it sounds, by the way-I've become obsessed with my size and in so doing I've inadvertently allowed my inner critic to have a voice. And you know what? She's a bitch. Like now when I see my underpants in the laundry, I no longer think Soft! Cotton! Sensible! Instead I hear her say Damn, girl, these panties be huge.

What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.