Marianne Williamson Quotes

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

We are what we believe we are.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

You are the imagination of yourself.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.