Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Originally said to Les Brown by one of his high school teachers.)
Opinion Quotes
They who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbelence of change.
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind’s leading of the blind.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion – it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
