Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

It's tough being me.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

I know I am very beautiful.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Always think yourself a perfect being and be satisfied with yourself.

People see us as no better than we are.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.

I'm sexy literally and I know it. I'm sexy because I know it.

I am not smarter than anyone else.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

I don't think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.