Self Perception Quotes

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

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.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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

I'm no genius.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

I'm not a developer; I am.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I didn't interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically.

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

I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

But no man's a hero to himself.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.

I'm a dull person.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.