Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins Copy Share Image
A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance… — Silas L. Copeland Copy Share Image
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and… — Plato Copy Share Image
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
“I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line.… — luvvie ajayi Copy Share Image
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization – the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Looks can’t hide your true identity. It’s the eyes that give you away…the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows. — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“A free society may be seen to be bent in its entirety on exploring self-improvement” — Frans P.B. Osinga Copy Share Image
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity. — David Goggins Copy Share Image
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.' — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
We can't be Everybody. That is why God made us as individuals...to be Somebody. We may need each other but we don't… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image