Characteristics Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

— Clayton M. Christensen

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

— Virginia Satir

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

— Dallin H. Oaks

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

— Starhawk

We must not be anything other than what we are.

— Maaza Mengiste

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

— David Trumble

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an…

— David O. Russell

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

— Anonymous

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

— James A. Baldwin

To be completely feature as human. First of all, man must live with the truth

— Anonymous

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

— Eric Hoffer