Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

I've been in situations where I've said to young people: "You're so personable, you're so articulate, you're clearly so bright, you're so good-looking - feel better about yourself!" But if at the core if you don't, all those words mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

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

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.