Tony Robbins Quotes

I know what my identity is.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

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

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

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

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.