Identity Quotes · Page 126

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

— Joseph Stowell

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

— Russell Brand

“Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process.”

— Karen Horney

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

— Frederick Lenz

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

— Seth Gordon

“I am made of universal love. I embrace my interconnected self and let it bring me joy.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

— Jacqueline Susann

“You don’t allow yourself the arrogance of self respect.”

— Robert Mamrak

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and…

— Frederick Lenz

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember…

— Blake Lively

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization…

— Rabindranath Tagore

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures…

— Marianne Williamson

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in…

— Sigmund Freud

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point…

— Roisin Murphy

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

— Eckhart Tolle

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey…

— Denis Villeneuve

It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community…

— Albert Einstein

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The personal ego identifies with a very limited part of the self and prevents you from recognizing the largeness of who you…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We…

— Gabby Bess

“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore…

— David F. Wells

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary…

— Yukio Mishima

“Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly ‘matter’ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is…

— Dada Bhagwan

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had…

— Petra Collins

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Banks

Everyone changes, but that's okay. You just have to remember who you were.

— Anonymous

“I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.”

— Catherine Lacey

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

— Robert Casey

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

— Mikel Arteta

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

— Maria Sharapova

Belief in self paves the way for success & great achievement.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

— Shirley Manson

“I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.”

— Tal McThenia

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

— Anonymous

A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be your self.

— Jim Morrison

“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

— Gerhard Richter

“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

— Sarah Churchwell

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

— Fausto Cercignani