ELi5 the axiom; “you are who you show yourself to be”

Question

Axiom, maxim, I forget which

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Answer 1

I see it as if you say you are a coward but prove time and again that you have done brave things, then you are seen as someone brave. What people percieve you to be is a lot of what people see as who you are.

Along with the saying, ‘if you talk the talk, then walk the walk.” Otherwise you are seen as what ever you do instead of what you always say you will do.