Quotes about Self-definition

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; Define yourself.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.

I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If I change the way I react, I can change the way I define myself as a mother.

When I was hired, I was urged] not to seek a clear definition of what I'd be doing because that would also make it clear what I was not supposed to do. Be careful not to define yourself out of an interesting job.

The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party validation. The amateur is tyrannized by his imagined conception of what is expected of him. He is imprisoned by what he believes he ought to think, how he ought to look, what he ought to do, and who he ought to be.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.