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.

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").

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true.

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.

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.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

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.

Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord