Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

I define myself.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I never felt like an Amanda.

I know what my identity is.

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

What is the image you have of yourself?

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

I have no issues with my identity.