Identity Quotes · Page 118

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

— Eve Ensler

To know your self worth is priceless. Most will live NEVER knowing theirs.

— Anonymous

Self-expression emerges from inspiration that is sparked by the reflection of others.

— Senora Roy

Don't mistake someones unique individuality as weakness or weirdness, if you do your likely to be one of those

— Edward Shaylitsa

Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.

— Justine Bateman

“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

— Robin Sharma

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

— Emmet Fox

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean…

— Courtney Love

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of…

— John de Ruiter

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of…

— Michael Moorcock

Question: How can I attain Self-realisation? Answer: Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary…

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. Its…

— Anonymous

Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white…

— Eileen O'Brien

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and…

— Hiromi

I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and…

— Chance The Rapper

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Everyone wants to come to Bengaluru and establish an empire. In the process, the most neglected people are Kannadigas, who are losing…

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

“In true community, the person is protected. Indeed, a solitary person may take a lonely stand in witnessing to a particular truth.…

— David Augsburger

Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our…

— Piero Ferrucci

We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism,…

— Pope Francis

You know, one of the ways we adapted to not being free was to think that our group identity was again, the…

— Shelby Steele

Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in…

— Sarah McBride

“WHEN WE LOOK deeply at the nature of things, we see that in fact everything is impermanent. Nothing exists as a permanent…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

— James Lecesne

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

— Frantz Fanon

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

— Maxwell Maltz

I'm an individualist. I want to have full control. It would be annoying for me if I didn't.

— Iga Swiatek

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

— Charles Buxton

Through the blind fire of achievement we often lose ourselves in the blaze.

— Anonymous

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

— Djuna Barnes

“The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.”

— Kim Askew

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

— Yvonne Orji

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

— Robert Breault

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

— Juliette Lewis

“Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.”

— Benjamin DeHaven

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

— Fela Kuti

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

— Danielle de Niese