Quotes About Self-perception

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.

She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?

You are who you think you are. You are what you remember.' 'You sure about that?' 'If you're not, then what the fuck are you?' 'What if you don't remember anything?' 'Ah,' Jason said, 'then you're in trouble.

Since the neuroscientific definition of mind is the brain in action, you repeatedly reproduce the same level of mind by "re-minding" yourself who you think you are in reference to the outer world.

To Change Your Life, Change Your Beliefs about the Nature of Reality

It's our environment that is controlling how we think, act, and feel. We're victims of our personal realities, because our personal realities are creating our personalities—and it's become an unconscious process. Then that, of course, reaffirms the same thinking and feeling, and now there's a tango or a match between our outer worlds and our inner worlds, and they merge and become the same—and so do we.

Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.

the Brat—Victoria to her second-grade teacher, Vicki to her mother, but the Brat to her father and in her heart—was