Top 100 Self Opinion Quotes
#1. From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.
Malcolm X
#3. The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
William Hazlitt
#4. Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Jeremy Collier
#5. I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
Louise Post
#6. I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
Adam Levine
#7. There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
Dennis Lehane
#8. I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
Nathaniel Branden
#9. In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
Walter Schellenberg
#10. To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism - a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she's more than what lies between her legs.
Caroline George
#11. It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?
Moby
#12. There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
Thomas Mann
#13. We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.
"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"
One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.
MacDonald Harris
#14. In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
Bruce Lee
#15. You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
Alice Walker
#16. 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
#17. Don't ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#18. You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.
Suze Orman
#19. The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.
Ron Conway
#21. Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
William O. Douglas
#22. It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren't true. All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.
Tom Nichols
#23. I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.
Marie Calloway
#24. Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.
Amy Jo Martin
#25. Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
Alexander Theroux
#26. Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
Sophie Swetchine
#27. Success, while it may provide encouragement, build confidence, and be joyful indeed, often teaches an insidious lesson - to have too high an opinion of self.
Anonymous
#28. My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.
Donald L. Hicks
#30. 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
#31. This should be one of the basic attitudes - not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.
Osho
#32. 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
#33. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Jane Austen
#34. Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
Peter Kreeft
#35. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
#36. 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
#37. If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Beatrice Webb
#38. Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
Wayne Dyer
#39. See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
Maxwell Maltz
#43. But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.
Jonathan Haidt
#44. The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.
Howard Zinn
#45. The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.
Alexander McCall Smith
#46. The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can't break free of their own.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
William Hazlitt
#48. 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
#49. If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
Gloria Steinem
#50. 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
#51. The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert A. Heinlein
#52. Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!
Mariela Dabbah
#53. You don't care what anyone thinks about you,' he said.
'That's crazy,' she said. 'I care what everyone thinks about me.'
'I can't tell,' he said. 'You just seem like yourself, no matter what's happening around you. My grandmother would say you're comfortable in your own skin.
Rainbow Rowell
#54. Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.
Rick Perlstein
#55. Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.
Maria Bamford
#56. A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile..
David O. McKay
#57. Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. 'We' are separate and the relative self is separate from us. 'We' should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn't get involved with those problems.
Dada Bhagwan
#58. 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
#59. If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
Anne Lamott
#60. Other people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it.
Kishore Bansal
#61. In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.
Horatius Bonar
#62. 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
#63. Job security is a myth ... it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. 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
#65. Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root
#66. My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.
Tyson Fury
#67. Raise the bar higher than your opinion...
Gino Norris
#68. Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
Herbert Marcuse
#69. I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.
Cassandra Clare
#70. The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it.
Steve Goodier
#71. He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-'
'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.
Toni Morrison
#73. I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks
#74. Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn't depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are...
Assegid Habtewold
#75. It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
Thomas Sowell
#76. My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.
Poppy King
#77. Sometimes it's not about your opinion; it's about what's right ... and knowing the difference.
Nina Guilbeau
#78. Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.
Nin
#79. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Suzanne Collins
#80. I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion ... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
William Cobbett
#81. It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.
Colleen Truscott Fry
#82. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.
Melanie Shankle
#83. I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
Charles Dickens
#84. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#85. Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
John Bradshaw
#86. If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on you by the society
Sunday Adelaja
#87. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down.
Frederick Douglass
#89. A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still
Dale Carnegie
#90. Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.
Tanya R. Taylor
#91. I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
Jessica Sorensen
#92. Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne Dyer
#94. Criticism is just someone else's opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.
Rodolfo Costa
#95. It's a fact that you're going to have a different opinion or view on certain topics or issues. You need stand your ground by sharing your view.
Michael Barbarulo
#96. The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The indolent world is all too ready to treat any man with whatever degree of respect corresponds to his own self-confidence.
Thomas Mann
#97. The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
Byron Katie
#98. No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.
Henry C. Link
#99. An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#100. This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
Dada Bhagwan
