Greg Gutfeld Quotes

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I was trying to prove people wrong who said I wasn't a good guy, and I was trying to be the person that other people thought I was - people who loved our band thought I was a god.

People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the rest of the world.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.