Karen Handel Quotes

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

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

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

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

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.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

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

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

I decided I would never let anyone decide who I was.

You choose who you want to be.

I am the me I choose to be.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.