If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I guess, for me, the idea of finding an identity through creative means has always been a way to deal with otherwise… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes… — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The conflict stirred up by new ideas can be so devastating only because so much of human life is lived in the… — Kathleen Taylor Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“my identity and happiness hinged. It was now outward-looking, a self-conscious performance. I was asked to repeat the pleasure for people, again… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Self-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse.… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness -… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The thing that's so at the heart of Bridgerton' is intimacy and identity and sexuality - and so of course that's something… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
I personally cannot abandon my identity and my community to receive an accolade, and that's not to diminish the accolade. — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“The inner voice we sometimes hear shaming us is not that of the witness, which is indifferent to our ups and downs.… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image