Mariska Hargitay Quotes

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.