I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

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

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

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

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

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.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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

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.

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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

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.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

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 was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

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

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

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

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

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

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.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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.

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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

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!

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.