Top 91 Self Define Quotes

#1. At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.

Adriana Trigiani

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#2. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Mary E. DeMuth

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#3. 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

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#4. Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#5. We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.

Leslie Jamison

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#6. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

Ann Packer

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#7. Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Erykah Badu

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

Virginia Satir

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#9. When you're comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

Rachel Robins

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#10. Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

Dee Dee Myers

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#11. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Renae A. Sauter

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#12. Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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#13. Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

Yasmin Mogahed

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#14. 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

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#15. Travel on your define path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#16. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.

Toni Sorenson

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#17. 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

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#18. It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

Chris Matakas

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#19. Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

Kamal Ravikant

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#20. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

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#21. The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

Wilson Follett

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#22. Define who you are. Define your future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#23. Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

Edgar Schein

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#24. Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have.

Gary Hopkins

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#25. Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.

Kathryn Perez

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#26. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

Alyscia Cunningham

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#27. What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don't let someone else define this for you.

Staci Bartley

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#28. Don't allow one setback to define you. Your true self is beyond measure. Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Move on to where you flourish.

Assegid Habtewold

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#29. Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

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#30. Everyone's unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis' (Self-realized person's) duty.

Dada Bhagwan

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#31. But in Japan, there are two very specific words to define these selves: tatemae, or the presentation of your public self, and honne, how you really feel.

Roland Kelts

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#32. However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation
to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

Derrick A. Bell

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

Oprah Winfrey

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#34. I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.

Leeky Behrman

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#35. Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Brennan Manning

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#36. as their eyes met she got that feeling again, that sensation of there being something huge between them, something she couldn't quite define, something her twenty-year-old self might have called 'passion' and her thirty-year-old self might have more cynically called 'chemistry'.

Liane Moriarty

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#37. You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term discomfort.

Stephen Fry

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#38. Humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

Neale Donald Walsch

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#39. No matter what life has dealt you, your yesterday does not need to define your today.

Mary A. Perez

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#40. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Albert Camus

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#41. The things that truly define me can't be lost.

Amy Neftzger

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#42. It would be wise to define 'living' as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I'm not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#43. We realize
often quite suddenly
that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

Adyashanti

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#44. The grace to define your self is spiritual act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#45. I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Andrew Young

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#46. We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.

Ruth Ozeki

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#47. People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

Shane Claiborne

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#48. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Lisa Locke

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#49. In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind

Mike Scheidt

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#50. As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance.

Tom DeMarco

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#51. Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down.

Charles F. Glassman

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#52. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

Mollie Marti

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#53. 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

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#54. As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.

Julie Carmen

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#55. Your actions and values define you.

Fennel Hudson

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#56. I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Hazel Hawke

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#57. Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

Gay Talese

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#58. I define workaholism as an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests itself through self-imposed demands, an inability to regulate work habits, and overindulgence in work to the exclusion of most other life activities.

Bryan E. Robinson

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#59. Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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#60. I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#61. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

Michael A. Singer

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#62. Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

Simon Mainwaring

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#63. I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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#64. When you discover who God is, you discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you no longer have to struggle with the insecurity and self-promotion that define much of society. You no longer have to strain to measure up, to qualify. You are free to be yourself.

Steven Furtick

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#65. The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#66. Objects are what we aren't, what we can't extend ourselves to be. Do people make things to define the boundaries of the self? Objects are the limits we desperately need. They show us where we end. They dispel our sadness, temporarily.

Don DeLillo

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#67. 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

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#68. A relationship doesn't define you. You define you.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

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#69. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

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#70. Find yourself, who are you?
Choose yourself, who can you be?
Define yourself to find your destination.

Debasish Mridha

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#71. The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#72. Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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#73. The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Frederick Lenz

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#74. Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.

Albert Ellis

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#75. Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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#76. If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

Gene Simmons

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#77. Never let others define you.

Auliq Ice

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#78. I define me. You don't.

Miya Yamanouchi

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#79. In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Mark Strand

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#80. I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.

Pankaj Mishra

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#81. Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#82. How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?

Eileen Cook

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#83. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.

L.K. Elliott

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#84. Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man.

Ogwo David Emenike

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#85. What you do doesn't define you. You can't let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.

Taylor York

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#86. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

Henna Inam

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#87. Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Hillary Clinton

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#88. As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.

Eckhart Tolle

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#89. Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.

Gabriella Marigold Lindsay

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#90. Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold ... But a person's job tells you nothing about a person's character or value.

Billy Graham

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#91. 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

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