opinions of others Quotes

“Don’t wait for people to approve you, affirm you, or validate you.”

“I don’t care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are—you can improve, and you will. ”

“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality. ”

“That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

“No matter what I had in my pocket, no matter what my suit cost, nobody could prevent me from acting as if I was a winner. Nobody could prevent me from acting as if my problems were all in the process of being solved. Pretty soon, my acting as if was so convincing that I started to believe it myself. I began to think futuristically, as if I had already passed the test as I weighed what would happen next.”

“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.”

“You may know a thing is so, but you can’t help hoping other people don’t quite think it is.”