Identity Quotes · Page 127

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

— Marcus Garvey

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

— Pope John Paul II

“On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.”

— Markus Zusak

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

— Seamus Heaney

I guarantee my self worth isn't affected by your acceptance.

— Sarah Moores

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

— Tony Robbins

“The bottom line: each of our lives is shaped by the war between the kingdom of god and the kingdom of self.”

— Paul David Tripp

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

— Jet Li

“Space and time and boundaries between identities fade away, until all that exists for those brief, endless seconds, is you, one melded…

— Jasinda Wilder

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity,…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on…

— William Wordsworth

“In the silence between cultures, I found my voice—not as one or the other, but as both and neither, a bridge between…

— Camellia Yang

“Where one’s existence becomes established in the [Real] Self (swaroop sthiti), there the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] stops.”

— Dada Bhagwan

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities.…

— Tim Wu

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.”

— Richard M. Weaver

One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in…

— Judith Martin

People who are instigators begin trouble and let others break the rules. To inflict injustice by instigation of other reflects low esteem,lack…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing…

— Wayne Dyer

“I faded out. I was for a moment my father tapping on his cigarette, the way he holds it, crushing it flat.…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he…

— Swami Vivekananda

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only…

— Pope Pius XI

“Have you ever died before? It’s a serious question. When the illusion of self is shattered, you simply cease to be. Though…

— Tameem Antoniades

“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

— William Shakespeare

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

— Orson Scott Card

“losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine.”

— E. E. Cummings

I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something.

— Alexander Gustafsson

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

— Ornette Coleman

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

— Tilda Swinton

“Limitations are possibilities . . . Opportunities to perceive ourselves Beyond our present selves . . .”

— Ilchi Lee

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

“...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...”

— John Geddes

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

— Frederick Lenz

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

— Eckhart Tolle

You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

— Michaela Coel

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

“Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel”

— Neil Young

“She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy