Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Everybody likes a compliment.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

The post of honour is a private station.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I’m ugly.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

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.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.