Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

You can't compare yourself to anyone else. I try and use this advice daily. I didn't actually fully believe that until I was maybe 21 or 22.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'"

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Be as honest with yourself as you possibly can. And it's not going to work for everybody, and I know you're going to be afraid of that, but please don't worry about being accepted by everybody. The people who like you and want to be around you, that's what matters, and that's what's healthiest for yourself.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the day, you have to learn to be your own best role model and learn what makes you happy, not necessarily what society thinks you're supposed to be or women that you look up to, what they're doing. I look at that as being a symbol in a blueprint, but never forget that who you are is what's most important.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.