Marcus Aurelius Quotes

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

Ego is good.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I think that I'm perfect.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.