Identity Quotes · Page 130

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

— Brian Tracy

'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.

— Sid Sriram

“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”

— Slash Coleman

“The self-realized spirit is merely a spirit emancipated from fear, judgement and knowing.”

— Bryant McGill

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

— Carrie Latet

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

— Deepak Chopra

“You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren’t willing to trust other human beings.”

— Robert Peate

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about…

— Zadie Smith

All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the…

— Frederick Lenz

When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.

— Victoria Legrand

One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can…

— Anonymous

“Your vyavahaar (worldly interactions) should be pure, only then can the self become pure. Nobody should complain [about you].”

— Dada Bhagwan

We met in high school, all in the same grade, and started doing improv and sketch together. That was almost 20 years…

— Sal Vulcano

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through…

— Sri Chinmoy

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't…

— Ken Robinson

Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the…

— Olaf Stapledon

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black…

— Bell Hooks

“She wasn’t falling apart. She was falling into herself.” This line captures the heart of my trilogy: the moment a woman realizes…

— Rowan Christoff

Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.…

— Eckhart Tolle

The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement…

— Walter Weyl

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me…

— Khalil Gibran

Ones flaws and ones indecisive moments does not describe nor represent ones inner self*

— Nhlanhla Radebe

I've been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it's more important to me than my net worth.

— Henry Cejudo

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

— Dinesh D'Souza

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.

— Peter Frampton

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...

— Sherwood Anderson

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

— Willem Buiter

“The inability to recruit recognition from others cripples an identity.”

— Robert W. Fuller

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

— Erich Fromm

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

The end of these life's difficulties is when someone starts to realize his real identity.

— Anonymous

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

— August Wilson

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

— Maria Montessori

“When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.”

— Bryant McGill

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck