"No man, deep down in the privacy..." - Quote by Mark Twain
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
More by Mark Twain
“We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes”
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
“By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.”
More on Self Esteem
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule”
“To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.”
“Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.”
More on Human Nature
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.”
“The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.”
“People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.”