Sitting Bull Quotes

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I know what my identity is.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.