Quotes About Self-definition

Because he's self-aware. He's committing patricides and matricides, but they're very conscious. He's not displacing. He knows he's implicating his parents. He knows his killings are symbolic—even illustrations of Freudian thought. That's why he thinks he's so much smarter than other killers. His killings don't divulge who he is. They affirm who he is. They're part of his self-definition.

You are not defined by other people's opinion of who you should be or what you should do as a person. You determine that, not anyone else.

Define yourself and accept the version of you, not what someone else wants you to be. Cause you will never find it anywhere else.

You can't be me and I can't be you, so therefore you are what you are, and what you are is not me!

At the same time, in speaking to women's groups, I have suggested that women look at men this way: if they took away their own network of intimate friends, those with whom they share their personal journey, removed their sense of instinctual guidance, concluded that they were almost wholly alone in the world, and understood that they would be defined only by standards of productivity external to them, they would then know the inner state of the average man.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role - very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do.

the key to achievement in life is not letting others define your towers.

The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.

But the experience of Asians in America isn't just a scaled-back or dialed-down version of the Black experience. Instead of co-opting someone else's experience or consciousness, he must define his own.

You get to define the terms of your life.

You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...

Action Painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence, never be allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .

You can't define yourself either in shades of what you are contesting or entirely in antithesis to it. By doing so, what you reveal is that you have nothing to say for yourself. Or that you are unsure of your messaging.