Quotes About Self-definition

We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us

Toni Morrison wrote, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined," and I learned that I must redefine what I believe is valuable and make sure I'm included within that definition.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

If I'm only defined by my sport, I really have failed. Yes, I've opened myself up for more criticism, but I'm a professional athlete. I get criticised every week. I'm used to it. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, but you get used to it.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are

Define yourself before someone does it for you.

Remember, nothing in life comes labeled, YOU are the labeler."

For so many years, people have used the expression 'poster boy of British MMA,' but I've never seen myself as that; I certainly never described myself as that.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

If I didn't define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.

It's amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.

And personalities define themselves in terms of other personalities.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.

I don't like being labelled so I decided to label myself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't put labels on myself.

I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

No one pigeonholes us better than we ourselves do.

If we interrupt the reinventing process prematurely, as Susan nearly did, we jeopardize our ability to fully internalize this new self-definition. Often it isn't until we are fairly far along in the reinventing process that we realize we must also reassess the foundations of our working identity.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.