Max Stirner Quotes

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Don't change for nobody.

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

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

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

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

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

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

I can't change my skin. I won't change my voice. I can't change my confidence.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.