Quotes About Self-definition

I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

People that don't know me, they might think i'm no one, but I let no one to tell me who I am, but me.

Do not let anyone define who you are, due to who they are not.

Never defend yourself, but define yourself with your imagination and actions.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

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

How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.

When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.

We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

Don't let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

those who lack self-definition, whether they are children, marriage partners, employees, clients, therapists, or supervisors, will always perceive those who are well-defined to be "headstrong.

If you want change you must take full responsibility for yourself. No one else defines how you live. You are the only one with the power for your self-change.