Quotes About What Others Think Of Us

#1. 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

#2. We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett

#3. But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.

Jonathan Haidt

#4. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

#5. So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us.

Bryant McGill

#6. We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#7. She met his gaze over the plums. The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#8. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Brigham Young

#9. At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Ann Landers

#10. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery

#11. Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

Charles Darwin

#12. What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern ... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#13. I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

Albert Schweitzer

#14. We think less about how others see and judge us and have the courage to ask ourselves what kind of person we are and how we might improve.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#15. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have
others think of us.

Jane Austen

#16. How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?

Kasie West

#17. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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." At

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. questions hold the power to cause us to think, create answers we believe in, and motivate us to act on our ideas. Asking moves us beyond passive acceptance of what others say, or staying stuck in present circumstances, to aggressively applying our creative ability to the problem.

Tony Stoltzfus

#19. There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Dee Hock

#20. We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back about us, how they view us, what kind of person they think we are and so on.

Jacqui Stedmon

#21. What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.

Beverly Engel

#22. I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. ( ... ) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others. (p. 257).

Elif Shafak

#23. It might be more accurate to think of love as a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate.

John J. Macionis

#24. I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Irvin D. Yalom

#25. Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Nido R. Qubein

#26. Redefine normal. None of us know the full measure of our power until we start pushing our boundaries and pressing our luck, and the more we do, the less we care what others think. The freedom feels too good.

Penelope Douglas

#27. We tell lies when we are afraid ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

#28. I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Claire Danes

#29. As self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

Charles Hayes

#30. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey

Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie

#31. You see, we all have dreams and we chase after them, as if they're too good to be true, always in the distance. I'm drawn to this because it shows if we believe, we know our dreams are already inside of us, bursting to come out for others to enjoy. At least, that's what I think.

Jennifer Hanes

#32. I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

Judith Butler

#33. Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

Radhanath Swami

#34. 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

#35. Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.

Michael Josephson

#37. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

Kay Hooper

#38. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

Katie McGarry

#39. The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

John Lancaster Spalding