Quotes About Self-definition

I'm not going to win any contests, but at least people will know what I am. I wish I never have to answer a What are you? question ever again.

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

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

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

Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

For years I have been saying Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

Ukraine's relationship with Poland is difficult and contradictory. For 500 years they shared a common history, first under the Polish kings, then under the Russian tsars. But like rival siblings they define themselves more by their differences than their similarities – Poland glamorous and self-dramatising;

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

We have to be strong in ourselves. Whoever defines themselves only through their opponents risks making their entire programme... dependent on others.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

That is true. I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.

The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.