Identity Quotes · Page 112

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

— Robert W. Firestone

Judging a person doesn't define who they are...But defines who you are.

— Tanya Bianco

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

— John Dewey

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

— Hugo Weaving

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

— Dinesh D'Souza

“It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom…

— Lionel Suggs

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to…

— Mary J. Blige

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's…

— Kit Williamson

Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay…

— Shonda Rhimes

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are…

— David Autor

“I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else.…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

Being self-centered for attaining something isn't wrong ,until your actions don't harm and hurt others!!! *senora*

— Senoraroy

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is…

— Caio Fonseca

There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a…

— Katrina Onstad

“Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know…

— Riley Noehren

“I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually…

— George Saunders

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and…

— Elijah Muhammad

Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority,…

— Pope John Paul II

It’s all risk. And if it isn’t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right…

— Jim Krusoe

“That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and…

— Virginia Woolf

I've been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it's more important to me than my net worth.

— Henry Cejudo

Ones flaws and ones indecisive moments does not describe nor represent ones inner self*

— Nhlanhla Radebe

“You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren’t willing to trust other human beings.”

— Robert Peate

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

— Deepak Chopra

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

— Carrie Latet

“The self-realized spirit is merely a spirit emancipated from fear, judgement and knowing.”

— Bryant McGill

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

— Erich Fromm

“The inability to recruit recognition from others cripples an identity.”

— Robert W. Fuller

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

— Willem Buiter

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...

— Sherwood Anderson

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.

— Peter Frampton

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

— David Hanson

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

Being imperfect is usual, perfect is impossible, being your self is AWESOME!

— Anonymous