Character Quote by Walter Lippmann

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose thatwax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

— Angelina Jolie

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think,…

— Tamar Jacoby

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

— Conan O'Brien

“Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live…

— Vicki Hinze

“Our personal identities are socially situated. We are where we live, eat, work, and make love. [...] Our sense of identity is in large…

— Philip G. Zimbardo

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the…

— Anonymous

“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical…

— Siri Hustvedt

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

— Sherry Turkle

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

— Joyce Carol Oates

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

— Joyce Johnson