Self Opinion Quotes:

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

- Les Brown

source: "Conversations on Success".

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Improve Self Esteem, Self-doubt

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

- Anthony Trollope

source: "Orley Farm".

topic: Life, Confidence, Self Esteem, Self Opinion, Help Self Esteem

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

topic: Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Thinking, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

topic: Spring, Simple, Men, Self Opinion

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

- Adam Levine

source: "Levine's just a singer in a band" by Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 25, 2012.

topic: Self, Needs, Opinion, Self Deprecating, Self Deprecating Humor

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Confidence, Ignorance, Self, Self Opinion

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

- Marcus Eremita

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual, Self Opinion, Spiritual Gifts

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

source: Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books

topic: Men, Self, White Man, Behavior Patterns, Self Opinion

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

source: William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

topic: Sacrifice, Vanity, Self, Spleen, Self Opinion