Top 100 Quotes About Define Yourself
#1. Every book changes you in some way, whether it's your perspective on the world or how you define yourself in relation to the world.
Mindy Mejia
#2. When you define yourself based on things you have done, in order to maintain that self-image you must constantly look away from the present moment, as you search for a means of self-understanding through past experiences.
Chris Matakas
#4. To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.
Deepak Chopra
#5. Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#6. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.
Miya Yamanouchi
#8. As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'
Ginni Rometty
#9. I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
Diana Wynne Jones
#10. Define yourself by your best moments, not your worst. Find one thing you did do right today, and focus on that.
Trisha Ashworth
#11. There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.
Rhonda Byrne
#13. You need to define yourself in the marketplace.
Steve Madden
#14. Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
Alan Watts
#16. You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
Ginni Rometty
#17. Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.
Jeanette Jenkins
#19. You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.
Tony Dungy
#22. You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.
Susan Mallery
#23. When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
Earl Nightingale
#24. Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
Brennan Manning
#25. I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.
James Mercer
#26. It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.
Dale Peck
#27. Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?
Beyonce Knowles
#28. Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.
Archibald Marwizi
#29. You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you.
Raymond E. Feist
#30. Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
Nina Easton
#31. Don't focus on it," she said. "Don't define yourself in terms of something which even many highly trained and gifted professionals do not fully understand.
Elyn R. Saks
#32. Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.
Wayne Dyer
#33. Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan W. Watts
#34. To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
Julian Barnes
#35. If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
Audre Lorde
#36. If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.
Deborah Meier
#37. If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself.
Faydra D. Fields
#38. It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.
Pat Buchanan
#39. If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you'll never earn real trust from your players or employees.
Bill Courtney
#40. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].
Deena Kastor
#42. Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?
Neale Donald Walsch
#43. My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.
Howard Schultz
#44. But don't define yourself by what you *don't* want to do. Define yourself by what you do want to do.
Sarah Addison Allen
#46. It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.
Robin Wasserman
#48. Whether it's your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living - don't let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.
Sherry Argov
#49. I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.
Terry Gross
#50. Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
Bill Crawford
#51. I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.
Idris Elba
#52. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.
Mary Hatwood Futrell
#53. Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.
Frederick Lenz
#54. A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.
Miranda Kenneally
#55. Find yourself, who are you?
Choose yourself, who can you be?
Define yourself to find your destination.
Debasish Mridha
#58. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.
Debasish Mridha
#59. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?
Julia Kent
#60. Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.
David Alan Grier
#61. It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value. It is easier to define yourself as 'not that,' rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
Jessa Crispin
#64. I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
Moon Unit Zappa
#65. When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people ... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
Armando Iannucci
#66. Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.
Tom Chappell
#67. Definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?
Neal Shusterman
#68. You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.
H. Rap Brown
#69. Do not define yourself by what you do. A manager? No, you are not a manager but you work as a manager. A maid? No, you are not a maid but you work as a maid. An accountant? No but you only work now as an accountant
Ikechukwu Joseph
#70. As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
Joel Kinnaman
#71. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Eddie Huang
#72. The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving
#73. Don't let others define you. You define yourself.
Ginni Rometty
#75. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Stephen Covey
#76. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
Alan Watts
#77. How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
Jim McKay
#78. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
#79. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.
Tamera Alexander
#80. It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean you should give up on yourself or let go of the amazing dreams you have on the inside.
Jamie Larbi
#81. Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
David Macinnis Gill
#82. Your life is define by you.
Pay no attention to what others says.
Pay attention to yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
#84. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
Francesca Martinez
#85. When you start defining yourself, you put yourself in boxes and I don't want to be trapped in anything because I will always evolve - I will always change. It's like water. I take on many shapes. Everyone should be that way and not define themselves. I am everything.
Karrine Steffans
#86. Define the life you want.
Never allow yourself to be bullied.
No one knows your destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Leonardo Donofrio
#88. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Junior talks about it - relating to dozens if not hundreds of tribes. Even as the world tries to define you, narrow the definition of you, don't do it to yourself. True
Sherman Alexie
#90. All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#91. We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
#92. All we have are our words and our actions. They are what define us. And one without the other is no good. You need to utilize both to make true change. Within yourself. Internally and externally.
Noah Nichols
#93. I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
Joe
#94. What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.
Bob Teague
#95. My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.
Bonnie St. John
#96. If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,
you will find that there are many wisdoms came out of truth.
In the end, you must find truth and define your own wisdom.
Toba Beta
#97. I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn't or hasn't or wouldn't or wasn't.
Cameron Conaway
#98. You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.
Lady Gaga
#99. Don't let the clothes or anyone define you ... just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.
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#100. You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.
Joan Bauer
