Joel Osteen Quotes

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

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

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.

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.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

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

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

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

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.