Quotes About Self-definition

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

I define myself first and foremost as I've had a fairly successful career.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams was one of the things by which I defined myself.

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you.

In the end, you are – what you are. Set your hair in a thousand curlicues Place your feet in yard-high shoes, You'll remain forever, what you are.

My financier friend had objectified herself to be special, with a self-definition that revolved around work, achievement, worldly rewards, and pride. Even though that object was slowly eroding, she was too attached to her worldly success to make the changes that could now bring her happiness.

Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.

We should not be assuming anything for anyone else's gender, because gender is defined by the individual.

I don't know whether to call myself a golfer who acts or an actor who plays golf.

There is a possible slight confusion here that I should eliminate. Robinette (and all the rest of the human race) called these people Heechee. Of course, they didn't call themselves that, any more than native Americans called themselves Indians or the African Khoi-San tribes called themselves Hottentots and Bushmen. What the Heechee in fact called themselves was the intelligent ones. But that proves little. So does Homo sapiens.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?

minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow Muslims: No one can make you a minority without your consent.

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

He was the kind of guy who was always telling you what kind of guy he was.

If he wants me to be a Prince, I'm not sure I can prevent it. But I'll be my own sort of Prince. I will.