#Self Image Quotes

“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

“It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.”

“The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.”

“The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.”

“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

“To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.”

“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”

“Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!”

“Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.”

“Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.”

“No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.”

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.”

“Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.”

“A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.”

“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”

“I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"”

“The world’s champ should be pretty like me!”

“I don't look like no kiwi bird”

“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”

“I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.”

“I like to feel blonde all over.”

“I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.”

“I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.”

“I am not a human being, I am dynamite.”

“I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.”

“Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.”

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

“I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!”

“If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.”

“You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."”

“I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

“I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!”

“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”

“Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would haveestablished my identity.”

“Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.”

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”

“If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.”

“I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.”