Identity Quotes · Page 82

Always be who YOU are, be self-aware, and love yourself tremendously!

— Zulay Henao

Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.

— Patricia Field

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

— John Dos Passos

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

— Mason Cooley

“It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.”

— Roisin Turner

I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.

— Kofi Siriboe

“I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep…

— Dada Bhagwan

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive.…

— Cliff Martinez

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before…

— Kate Chopin

“I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love…

— Beatrice Sparks

All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which…

— Christopher Alexander

Narcissists - people with an inflated self-concept and a strong sense of uniqueness and superiority - seek attention and affirmation on Facebook.

— Amy Morin

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

— Judith Butler

By leaving behind your old self & taking a leap of faith into the unknown, you find out what you are truly…

— Anonymous

Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed.…

— Laozi

“To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its…

— Linda Colley

In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of…

— Thomas Pynchon

I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I've never understood it, until I spoke once to a man…

— Rush Limbaugh

Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up…

— Susan Choi

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

— Thomas Merton

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

— Aristotle

“Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.”

— Francine Pascal

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

— Anonymous

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

— Gabrielle Zevin

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

— Tom Hooper

“We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”

— William Gibson

God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

— Laozi

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

— Fela Kuti

“Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.”

— Benjamin DeHaven

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

— Edgar Cayce

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

As a model, it's been really freeing to embrace my individuality and celebrate what makes us all different.

— Denise Bidot