Identity Quotes · Page 109

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

— Conrad Aiken

I can never win, my self I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like.

— Korn

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Do not imitate others. You are unique. Be who you are. Be your real self.

— Joel Randymar

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

— Andrew Saul

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

— Anonymous

I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

— B.o.B

“We may have been stuck in our hurt, hang-up or harmful habit for so long that it has become part of how…

— Zondervan

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own…

— Thomas Merton

Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ Stanford University commencement speech , 2005]”

— Steve Jobs

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and…

— Ramana Maharshi

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society…

— Terry Goodkind

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and…

— Gerald R. Ford

I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly,…

— Julie Andrews

Children need people in order to become human… It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if…

— Tilda Swinton

“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards…

— Jeanette Winterson

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they…

— Yoko Taro

“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which…

— Marcel Proust

My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,…

— Emma Stone

“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so…

— Chuck Palahniuk

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most…

— Barbara Sher

They tell you to be your self then they judge you for it

— Abbigail Russell

“​In this World, there is One Task, that 'Only You' can Do. Only You, Can Keep Your Word.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“a criminal sketch of Christ on a diner napkin -'Poet Prophets”

— Amber Koneval

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

— Donald Barthelme

The worst thing that you can do is to steal a person's name

— Anonymous

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

— Samoa Joe

By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves...

— Edgar Cayce

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

— Haim Ginott

In order to leave a big mark on this world we must live our lives as our selves, and only ourselves.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

— Alix Kates Shulman

I feel like every person has his own identity and every person has his own taste in music.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

— Isaac Watts

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

— Gertrude Atherton

“As I began to think a bit more deeply about my own identity, I”

— J.D. Vance

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

— James Q. Wilson