Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I care what people who know me think of me.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

Hopefully people see me as a great person, first of all.

I know how loyal I was to Coach Blatt, and the people that know me understand that. I have no control over what people think.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.