Matthew Hussey Quotes

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

Earlier, I would never focus on how I looked because I thought I was just 'OK.' So my focus was on being well-read, good in studies, school captain. My personality depended on what I read, not on some magical genetic thing.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

I am better than my reputation.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Ego is good.

There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.

Image became a nuisance that wouldn’t go away. I thought that if I were working productively and accomplishing something worthwhile, the image would take care of itself.

Your self-image is the result of all you have given your subconscious mind as a database, so regardless of your background, what you are willing to become is the only reality that counts.