Self Identity Quotes

"Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind." "When you try to live to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one, including yourself" "The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself " "I'm not trying to represent another person. I'm OK with people recognizing my work as writer and creator. I'm better off suited by being myself." "There are no men like me There's only me" "I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant." "Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is." "To define is to limit." "Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important." "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action" "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." "To live is to choose, but to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there" "Even as a junkie I stayed true to my code – and this certainly wouldn’t have been a problem: I’d have taken a baby held it aloft and said ‘This baby has been sent to earth to destroy all babies’ and let it go back to its mother " "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within." "I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant." "Some people wanted me to come back down to earth. To come down to their level. To relax. But I couldn’t. It wasn’t in my DNA." "Either way, I refuse to change what I am. A lion has to eat. Run with me or run from me." "There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."