Identity Quotes · Page 100

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

— Win Butler

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.”

— Bryant McGill

“When you understand who you are, you cause the world to change in your favor.”

— E'yen A. Gardner

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

— Mark Victor Hansen

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face…

— John Carter Cash

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

— Robert Smith Surtees

“What it is,” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.”

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

“Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering…

— Thomas Merton

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in…

— Mitski

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness -…

— Eckhart Tolle

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

— Dalai Lama

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of…

— Agnes Repplier

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got…

— Graham Greene

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one…

— Etgar Keret

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing.…

— Ali Smith

children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your…

— Phyllis Chesler

When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal…

— Laura van den Berg

To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather…

— David Whyte

“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in…

— Gangaji

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,…

— Paulina Ochoa Espejo

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which…

— John Dewey

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

— Derek Walcott

“It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

— Edouard Vuillard

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

— Diane Arbus

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

“Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.”

— Bryant McGill

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

— Rory Vaden

“The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.”

— Bryant McGill

You will never know the power of your self.until some hurts you badly.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

— Sakyong Mipham

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

— Oprah Winfrey

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

— Ralph Blum

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

— Susan Sontag

“I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.”

— Sam Harris

“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.”

— Christopher Hitchens

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

— Oswald Chambers