Identity Quotes · Page 122

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

— Eckhart Tolle

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

— Gore Vidal

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

— Melissa Sue Anderson

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

— Brian Tracy

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

— Benjamin Franklin

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

— Melvin Van Peebles

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

— Nancy Horan

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself…

— Malcolm X

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn…

— Neil Gaiman

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

— Paul G. Stoltz

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own…

— Criss Jami

The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place,…

— Peter Kreeft

“To truly change, a person must first start with their inner self. They must learn to forgive themselves of their own inadequacies…

— Rachel McClellan

Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is…

— David Crystal

“...it's a sinister wonderland. My life, cleaned like a revolver, levels in the direction of happiness. Come on. It's a Marxian dream,…

— Misha

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best…

— Anonymous

What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about…

— Asia Kate Dillon

“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed…

— Butler Shaffer

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It…

— Rachel Cusk

In a free country like India, where you are free to practice any religion and pray - whether gurudwara, masjid, temple -…

— Anurag Thakur

Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the…

— Jason Kander

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

— William Hazlitt

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Who you are is what makes you special. Don't change for anyone. Maintain your identity, that matters most.

— Anil Sinha

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

— Anonymous

Make-up for me is a form of self-care and form of self-expression as well.

— Nicola Coughlan

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

— Anonymous

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

— Sam Phillips

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

— Arthur Miller

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

— Florence L. Barclay

To encounter your real self, walk into that silence you dread.

— Terry Mark

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

— Chuck Jones

Be yourself, Never give up and always believe in your self

— Y

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

— Azar Nafisi

“Self-destruction can be cathartic in the worst ways possible.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller