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Quotes about Self-image

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.
- Lysa TerKeurst
When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").
- Gloria Steinem
Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true.
- Brian Tracy
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
- Tertullian
What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.
- Charles Dickens
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
- Will Rogers
I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.
- Jennifer Aniston
Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.
- Timothy Lane
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord
- Oscar Wilde