Quotes about Self-image

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

I remember looking at myself in the mirror one morning and thinking, I am not a handsome guy. What am I going to do with a face like this? Then I smiled. And I thought, That helps.

People cannot perform in a way inconsistent with the way they see themselves.

Labels only stick if I let them.

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We

I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.

But no matter, because that's about the time Jesus will remind us that thighs aren't something we'll ever think about in eternity. And all God's girls say

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").