150 Image Quotes to Inspire and Motivate Your Journey to Success

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Famous Image Quotes

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. — Ezra Pound

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda

Images contaminate us like viruses. — Paul Virilio

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul. — James Hillman

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. — John Locke

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. — Anne Geddes

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. — Robert Collier

A picture is a poem without words. — Horace

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. — RuPaul

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. — Helen Levitt

Sunlight is painting. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Short Image Quotes

  • Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
  • Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth. — Oprah Winfrey
  • I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. — Huey Newton
  • Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are. — John C. Maxwell
  • A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. — Joyce Brothers
  • I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich
  • We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. — Vincent de Paul
  • You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image Image Quotes

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. - Marcel Proust quote

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy. - Sanjay Dutt quote

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy. — Sanjay Dutt

Image quote Fake people have and image to maintain. Real people just don't care.
Fake people have and image to maintain. Real people just don't care.
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. - Robert Bresson quote

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert Bresson

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - Francis Bacon quote

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon

You are made in the image of what you desire. - Thomas Merton quote

You are made in the image of what you desire. — Thomas Merton

I have cellulite. So what? - Kim Kardashian quote

I have cellulite. So what? — Kim Kardashian

Image quote Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don't care.
Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don't care.

God Image Quotes

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image. — Oscar Romero

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved. — Jean Vanier

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. — Saint John Chrysostom

Image quote To bring anything into your life, image that it's already there.
To bring anything into your life, image that it's already there.

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. — Francis Schaeffer

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. — Teresa of Avila

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image. — LeCrae

Image quote Men create the gods in their own image.
Men create the gods in their own image.

Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus. — Judah Smith

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. — Francis Schaeffer

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his. — Jonathan Sacks

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. — George Santayana

Love Image Quotes

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. — Thomas Merton

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. — Rene Magritte

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be. — Jean Kilbourne

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. - Kurt Hahn

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs. — Christina Aguilera

Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image. — Will Smith

I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards. — Khloe Kardashian

Body Image Quotes

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. — Marilyn Monroe

I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt. — Ashley Graham

The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe. — Lena Horne

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. - Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. — Meryl Streep

Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. — Anthony Trollope

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. — Kate Hudson

Positive Image Quotes

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow

Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair. — William James

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. - Gary Snyder

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder

We should never be arrogant when it comes to the reputation of our country, and anything positive you do is an Emirati deed, so all of us are responsible for shaping, introducing and projecting a positive image of the UAE. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

I see light at the end of the tunnel. — Walt Whitman Rostow

Embracing uniqueness and showcasing the beauty of our differences is what I am all about so the fact that my words and image can impact positive change is a perk of this job I never expected I would have. — Ashley Graham

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies — Kenneth Copeland

Mirror Image Quotes

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. — Clare of Assisi

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself. — Baal Shem Tov

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you. — Byron Katie

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. — Maeve Brennan

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness. — Max Ernst

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot. — Richard Rohr

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. — Derek Walcott

Positive Self Image Quotes

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore

You can have anything you want — Jenifer Lewis

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. — Joyce Brothers

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image. — Nido R Qubein

Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. — Tyler Cowen

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust. — Robert H. Schuller

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. — Joyce Brothers

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health. — Deepak Chopra

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances. — Ezra Taft Benson

Public Image Quotes

Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. — Nicola Sturgeon

It would be very silly of me to alienate basically half of America. — MrBeast

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing. — Christopher Walken

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. — Lucy Hale

To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands. — Eric Alterman

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. — Robert Heinecken

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. — Mario Balotelli

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust. — Richard Branson

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. — Jimmy Carter

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Photo Quotes

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. — Ansel Adams

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately. — Jeffrey Deitch

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. — Audrey Tautou

As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos. — Lewis Howes

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image. — Peter Lik

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More Image Quotes

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more. — Lemmy Kilmister

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power. — John Henrik Clarke

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind. — Michel Legrand

In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe. — Fritjof Capra

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. — Chris Cornell

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda

One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you. — Jaime Escalante

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. — Parker J. Palmer

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness. — Matthew Gray Gubler

There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing. — Merce Cunningham

In Conclusion

These quotes inspire us to recognize the importance of authenticity and self-expression in creating a positive image. They encourage us to embrace our uniqueness and understand that the image we project should reflect our true selves. These quotes also remind us to be mindful of the images we consume, as they can shape our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes.

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