Mark Twain Quotes

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

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.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

I always felt like a fraud.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

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

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better, but I don't wanna outshine her.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'