Mitt Romney Quotes

I don't like being labelled so I decided to label myself.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.

I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

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

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I don't put labels on myself.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.