Quotes About Self-definition

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

TWO THINGS HAVE ALWAYS SAVED MY LIFE: READING and singing. Books and music have comforted me, informed me, helped me define myself. It's impossible to overstate their importance to my mental health, spiritual sustenance, and survival on the planet.

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. We define ourselves.

It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

It is so easy to fall victim of everybody else's definition of what you should be.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

Because when you are something people don't know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.

I've been called worse," he assures me, "and perhaps I am guilty as charged. I guess it depends on who is defining what constitutes a lady's man." The statement strikes me as true beyond its intention. How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

All it would cost me was my soul. And no, I'm not talking about anything magical or metaphysical. I'm talking about the core of my identity, about what makes Harry Dresden who and what he is. If I lost those things, the things that define me, then what would be left?

By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and other.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

I hate being 'labeled'. I'm no object, dont dehumanize me.

I'm not a scene kid. I'm not an emo kid. I'm not a goth kid. I'm not a punk kid. I'm not a preppy kid. I'm not a smart kid. I'm not a popular kid. I'm not a label. I'm Me.

Don't let the boys you've let in your life define the population of this male to you. In life many unfortunate events will take place. Dwelling on those events will only make life tough on you.

To be anti-American only makes you a reactionary. In our case, having defeated the Americans, we no longer defined ourselves as anti-American. We are simply one hundred percent Vietnamese.

I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.

Define yourself. Never give anyone any chance to define you by their definitions.

God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.