Top 100 Quotes About Opinion Of Others
#1. What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#2. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.
Patti J. Smith
#3. I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.
Deepak Chopra
#4. Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
Luc De Clapiers
#5. The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6. The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
Osho
#7. In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
Bruce Lee
#8. Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a line to one of a set of other lines
Anonymous
#9. There is value in every date and every relationship regardless of where it ends up. Not everyone is going to love you, and the sooner you can embrace that and be okay with it, the better off you will be in the dating minefield. The opinion of others doesn't make us who we are.
Cindy Johnson
#10. Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#11. As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
Al Lewis
#12. I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.
Joseph Heller
#13. The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Napoleon Hill
#14. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
#15. Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#16. I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
Albert Einstein
#17. Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#18. Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
Katherine Mansfield
#19. I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.
Angelina Jolie
#20. There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.
Walter Scott
#22. All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
CeeLo Green
#23. He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.
Damon Galgut
#24. The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
Eric Hoffer
#25. Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.
Gary L. Roberts
#26. He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
Marcus Aurelius
#30. He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
Mother Teresa
#31. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning
Sue Monk Kidd
#32. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Richard Von Weizsaecker
#33. Happiness is not dependent on the good or bad opinion of others, but instead upon your actions. It
Lawrence Wallace
#34. You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.
Deepak Chopra
#35. If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
William Hurrell Mallock
#36. Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
Nanette L. Avery
#37. I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
George Washington
#38. Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne Dyer
#39. Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!
Steve Maraboli
#40. Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.
Anonymous
#41. There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#42. I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
Marcel Duchamp
#44. Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.
Miguel Ruiz
#45. You will never be fully resigned to the will of God if you are troubled by human opinion of you, or if you make for yourself a little idol of what people say.
Michael Molinos
#46. Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#47. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.
Toni Sorenson
#48. So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.
Dan Pearce
#49. Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don't control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing.
Ryan Holiday
#50. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." "If
Jane Austen
#51. I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.
Toni Braxton
#52. There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
Conrad Black
#54. A person's own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
Anuj
#55. It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
Carly Pope
#56. We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.
Jimmy Carter
#57. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.
Ben Carson
#59. When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.
Donald L. Hicks
#60. The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.
Douglas Southall Freeman
#61. In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
George Mikes
#62. Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.
Vincent De Paul
#63. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.
Steve Hagen
#64. None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Spurgeon
#65. Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.
Debasish Mridha
#66. The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not t satisfy someone else's opinion.
Deepak Chopra
#67. I never stop myself from doing something because I'm afraid of what people might think.
Zooey Deschanel
#68. Never allow anyone to destroy God's divine purpose within you through their opinion.
Prophetess Dina Rolle
#69. We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.
John Ortberg
#70. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#71. A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.
Melanie Chisholm
#72. Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
Andrew Sarris
#73. One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.
Nick Hanauer
#74. Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
Katherine Anne Porter
#75. Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?
William E. Simon
#76. The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court ... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
William O. Douglas
#77. We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
William Hazlitt
#78. The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#79. Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Ray Comfort
#80. Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view.
Toba Beta
#81. But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
#83. Why even dictate?
Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.
Stephen Colbert
#84. God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.
Bryant McGill
#85. I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Herbert H. Lehman
#86. If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.
Michael Harris
#87. Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
Denis Waitley
#88. If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
Blaise Pascal
#89. This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise
#91. It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.
Bohdi Sanders
#92. The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.
Travis Bradberry
#93. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have
others think of us.
Jane Austen
#94. The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
P. J. O'Rourke
#95. None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell
#96. Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#97. We all watch and are constantly being watched in the social media. And while we feel this gaze of others, we form our own identities, our own personas, having as a guiding principle the opinion, the values, the (gossiping) interests of others.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#98. If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action.
Wayne Dyer
#100. Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
William Makepeace Thackeray
