Charles Simmons Quotes

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

When you look in the mirror at the end of the day, make sure you feel good about what you see.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.