Self Perception Quotes

“They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.”

“GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .”

“I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.”

“I cannot tell what you and other menThink of this life; but, for my single self,I had as lief not be as live to beIn awe of such a thing as I myself.”

“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.”

“Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

“I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”

“We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm”

“I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .”

“Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.”

“You don't see your own face, your own beautyYet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .”

“Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.”

“The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.”

“Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.”

“Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.”

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.”

“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

“All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.”

“We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.”

“A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.”

“Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!”

“I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.”