Identity Quotes · Page 97

Make-up for me is a form of self-care and form of self-expression as well.

— Nicola Coughlan

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

— Anonymous

Who you are is what makes you special. Don't change for anyone. Maintain your identity, that matters most.

— Anil Sinha

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

— William Hazlitt

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

— Nancy Horan

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

— Melvin Van Peebles

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

— Chuck Jones

Rebelling against perfection , Staying authentic to my own identity , Living life to the fullest & Not giving a flying fuck…

— Skyler Bling

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others,…

— Bradford Winters

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one…

— Mitski

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going…

— Ronald Reagan

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.

— Helmut Kohl

“a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.”

— Bill O'Reilly

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite…

— Gretchen Rubin

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,…

— Jaron Lanier

“Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation…

— Bell Hooks

The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence…

— Adyashanti

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious…

— Terri E Apter

“[E]very individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality,…

— Alan W. Watts

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence…

— Georg Simmel

“Washed and waiting. That is my life – my identity as one who is forgiven and spiritually cleansed and my struggle as…

— Wesley Hill

To encounter your real self, walk into that silence you dread.

— Terry Mark

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

— Florence L. Barclay

“Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

— Arthur Miller

“Self worth doesn’t come from self confidence but in loving yourself as you are.”

— Charmaine Shaw

“individual or a small group seeking a solution to an individual's or a”

— Eric von Hippel

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

— Siri Hustvedt

“At a basic level, community unites us to a purpose bigger than our own lives as individuals.”

— Randy Frazee

“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it. That”

— Mark Manson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

— Fred Wilson

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

— Chloe Kim

“Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.”

— Joan Walsh Anglund

Everyone is beautiful in their own way, and nobody should have self doubt.

— Nia Jax

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

— Brian Tracy

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

— Rumi