Public Image Quotes

**Public image**. Oh my, how fragile and easily shaped it is! It's not what you are, but what others perceive you to be. It's the stage where you present your best, or at least, the part you want them to see. It's not always the truth, but it's the reality the world deals with, a complexity vividly explored in these insightful quotes.

Quote by Bill Gates: (On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. ...
Quote by Princess Diana: The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little ...
Quote by Princess Diana: I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country....
Quote by Mike Tyson: My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality....
Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger: I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences....
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present...
Quote by John C. Maxwell: Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a...
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen....
Quote by Taylor Swift: I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example f...
Quote by Dolly Parton: I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I hav...
Quote by Winston Churchill: He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to...
Quote by Mark Twain: Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public....
Quote by Taylor Swift: They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and ...
Quote by Dolly Parton: I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going ...
Quote by Barack Obama: I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse....
Quote by Taylor Swift: And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!...
Quote by Confucius: The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees...
Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo: For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face....
Quote by John Lennon: I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it t...
Quote by Kurt Cobain: I don't want to be a spokesperson....
Quote by Taylor Swift: While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you h...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape....
Quote by John Lennon: Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody ...
Quote by Muhammad Ali: The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I crea...
Quote by Princess Diana: You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of mon...
Quote by Taylor Swift: You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you f...
Quote by Taylor Swift: My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people.
Quote by Mike Tyson: I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to kn...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like...
Quote by John F. Kennedy: A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's
Quote by Kanye West: I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche......
Quote by Princess Diana: Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the...
Quote by Barack Obama: I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my ...
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
Quote by Princess Diana: It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because ...
Quote by Princess Diana: I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them....
Quote by Taylor Swift: People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I...
Quote by John Lennon: I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this....
Quote by Clint Eastwood: I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. S...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I don't want people to think of me as sexy....
Quote by Taylor Swift: I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels....
Quote by Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one......
Quote by Kanye West: The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous....
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will....
Quote by Barack Obama: I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I al...
Quote by Muhammad Ali: I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you wa...
Quote by Taylor Swift: If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called m...
Quote by Muhammad Ali: At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get ve...