Identity Quotes · Page 122

Since I'm a highly self-critical person, I try to become better every day. I don't see the point of competing with anyone.

— Disha Patani

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom…

— Margaret Cho

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

— Karen Salmansohn

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

— Thomas McEvilley

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

— Karen Armstrong

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

— Criss Jami

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

— Louis D. Brandeis

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

— Gene Edwards

Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged…

— Edgar Schein

Many begin drinking,smoking or doing drugs in an attempt to display their freedom,only to find that they eventually develop an addivtion that…

— Sean Covey

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from…

— Plato

“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

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in…

— Mike Nichols

I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the…

— Raymond Burr

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual…

— Ludwig von Mises

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this…

— Mark Manson

“Practically speaking, when I mix up my roles at any given stage of life with my ultimate identity, I end up in…

— Wendy Alsup

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

— Steve Young

“Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as…

— Hannah Anderson

The greatest challenge in life is to discover who you are and the second greatest challenge is being happy, what you have.

— Anil Sinha

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

— Carl Jung

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

— Rose Wilder Lane

I feel lucky to have grown up in a time where self expression and personal identity is celebrated more and more every…

— Gracie Abrams

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

— Thomas Sowell

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

— Dana Gioia

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self…

— Hettie Jones

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

— Jack Kornfield

“Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

— Maria Montessori

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on…

— Emmanuel Jal

The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.

— Matteo Salvini

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

— Randall Wallace

Self-respect comes from acting in accordance with your fundamental nature. Let your individuality and uniqueness to shine.

— Kishore Bansal

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

— Al Goldstein

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

— Jon M. Chu