Stephen Covey Quotes

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.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

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.

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.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I know what my identity is.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.