Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

Let's say another YouTuber rates my outfit from Coachella, right? They are completely entitled to their opinion, and I actually really loved my Coachella outfit. If they say, 'This is ugly,' and even if I don't think it's true, it's a mood killer.

I wouldn't necessarily wear what everybody is wearing unless it makes me feel good.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like 'Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

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!

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

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

But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more.