#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.”

“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”

“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”

“Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.”

“Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

“If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.”

“The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away”

“There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.”

“It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.”

“Money always has come to me, because I always have seen myself as endlessly abundant.”

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

“Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?”

“We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.”

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

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”

“Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.”

“A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.”

“He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”

“If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.”

“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.”

“If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.”

“But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.”

“My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo”

“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”