Identity Quotes · Page 38

“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we…

— Thomas Merton

To create value in the world, we must first recognize our own individual identity.

— Senoraroy

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really…

— Jacque Fresco

I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

— Rajneesh

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

— Travis Pastrana

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation…

— bell hooks

“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in…

— Roger Scruton

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

— Diane Arbus

Its better to be yourself and have no friends, than it is to be like your friends and have no self.

— Nishan Singh

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…

— Roman Jakobson

Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about…

— Ralph Lauren

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes…

— William Hazlitt

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

— James Q. Wilson

“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist…

— Martha Ackelsberg

The truest success is but the development of self.

— Charles Atlas

Self-praise is half slander

— Proverb

People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“The inner voice we sometimes hear shaming us is not that of the witness, which is indifferent to our ups and downs.…

— Robert W. Fuller

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“While paying attention to the messages in its public spaces, Christianity also wisely recognizes the extent to which our concepts of good…

— Alain de Botton

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to…

— Maajid Nawaz

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”…

— Eckhart Tolle