Maya Angelou Quotes

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

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

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

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

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.