Quotes About Not Letting Others Define You

#1. Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

Tom Chappell

#2. You are here with a unique purpose. Stop letting others define you. Stop letting others dilute you. Don't be bullied or pressured into being less than you are.

Steve Maraboli

#3. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jenna Jameson

#4. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#5. Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Patti Davis

#6. Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

Lord Byron

#7. The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience.

Carl R. Rogers

#9. It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#10. Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.

Joaquin Phoenix

#11. Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Jayson Blair

#12. Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#13. Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

Robyn Davidson

#14. I've grown accustomed to the stars above my head as I sleep, the ache in my muscles as we walk the land. The freedom that comes with defining your world instead of letting it define you.

Amy Engel

#15. You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.

Bonnie St. John

#16. You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him
don't let this one event define who you are.

Mary Esselman

#17. On winter mornings when it's dark and the air is crisp, the lights are still shining and the first customers are gathered at the counter like conspirators. They give you the illusion that the day will be a new adventure. And that illusion stats with you for at least some of the morning.

Patrick Modiano

#18. My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.

Bonnie St. John

#19. Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

John Thorn

#20. Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

Heidi Priebe

#21. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister

#22. Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

John King

#23. Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Chip Conley

#24. If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#25. Don't ever apologize for being a little rough with me!

Lia Davis

#26. I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

....

"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

R.L. Haas

#27. Sweet bleedin' Christ," Bones interrupted. "Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we're
already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we'll get you more cats.

Jeaniene Frost

#28. STOP letting your troubles define you! RISE above them by choosing to move on and leave them all behind you.

Timothy Pina

#29. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

#30. Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words.

Temi Peters

#31. 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

#32. To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.

David W. Earle

#33. I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith