Others' Opinions Quotes

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I'll just let people think what they would like to think, and that's fine, because it really doesn't infringe upon my life.

Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.

People tell me I'm intimidating and I've got to come to terms with it.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

I stopped looking at people's opinions. It's easy to get caught up in what other people think.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

I don't know what people think of me.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.