Self Image Quotes

We are people of worth because God lives in us.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

The self is a subjective entity created by our thoughts and deeds. All sense of happiness and emotional wellbeing turns upon how a person organizes their stream of consciousness into a creation and development of a positive or negative self-image.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

~ Dee Remy

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

~ Max Lucado

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I’d rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through your eyes.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

~ Meg Rosoff

To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans

~ Zoë Marriott

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

~ Ron Brackin

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself.

~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1)

~ Robyn Silverman

Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl who does her hair like a forties pinup and wears bright red lipstick, a blue polka-dot dress with a white doily collar, colorful tattoos across her huge, smushed cleavage, as if these considerations would distract us from how fat and miserable she'd become.

~ Ottessa Moshfegh

Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

~ Naomi Wolf

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

~ Adriana Trigiani

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

~ Dee Remy

There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.

~ Joanna Walsh

Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

~ Suzy Kassem

Humankind’s greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final configuration of our ultimate essence. Our mental temperament is pliable. We make conscious and subconscious choices that govern who we become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first.

~ Holly Madison

Great spirit, great-self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a wonderful sacred-soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

~ Dee Remy

Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you or inspire you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-liberation is the greatest victory.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-esteem is the garden in which passion bears success flowers. Most people can’t stand out to stand for what supposed to belong to them just because; they feel it can’t be theirs, so it’s not theirs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor