“Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“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 (1954) actor from the United States

“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. […] He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.”

Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“Why limit yourself to just one best friend?”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer