Quotes About Self-perception

What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?

If you're going to recognize your value, you have to see yourself as amazing, as wonderful.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to. They can call you slow, lazy, too old. That's all right. Just don't answer to it. Answer to "victorious," "talented," "history maker." If you'll do this, I believe and declare, today is going to be a turning point. The bondages from the past are no longer going to have any effect on you.

I am better than my reputation.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

You are what you believe you are.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.

Boobs are just inherently undignified.