Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Self Perception Quotes
ControlInfluencePowerSelf-PerceptionVulnerability The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
ClarityDedicationIdentityProfessionSelf-Perception I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.
FamilyHumorIdentityNamesSelf-Perception Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
ProblemSelf-IdentitySelf-Perception Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
AspirationHumorImaginationSelf-Perception I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
DivinityHumanityLimitationSelf-Perception The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
ChangeCultural InfluenceHumorIdentitySelf-Perception As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
BeliefComplimentsGender DynamicsManipulationSelf-Perception A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
ConnectionExternal OpinionSelf-PerceptionVulnerability When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Cultural StereotypesIdentityPrejudiceSelf-Perception Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
IdentityMedia InfluenceSelf-PerceptionStereotypes I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.
Cultural InfluenceHockeyIdentitySelf-PerceptionSocial Status In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
External PerceptionHumilityInfluenceSelf-Perception I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.
ConfidenceEmpowermentImpactPotentialSelf-Perception I thought I couldn't make a difference because I was too small.
Emotional IntensityRelationshipsSelf-Perception It's either love or hate with me. People really can hate me.
EmpowermentEqualityGender RolesSelf-PerceptionStrength Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Emotional StruggleMental HealthSelf-PerceptionSupport System Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can't do therapy.
CreativityHumilityIdentityIntelligenceSelf-Perception We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'
Human NatureSelf-Perception If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
AspirationDivinityHumilitySelf-PerceptionTalent If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
AchievementDisciplineHumorLifestyleSelf-Perception I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'
Ageing GracefullyAgingAppearanceSelf-AcceptanceSelf-Perception Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.