Identity Quotes · Page 59

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

— August Wilson

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

Take care of your character because character will define your dignity.

— Anonymous

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

— Richard Rorty

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

— Christopher Fry

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and…

— Ramana Maharshi

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

— Chris Evert

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

— William Butler Yeats

Sexual orientation and gender identity are not a choice, and anyone who knows me and my work over the years knows that…

— Valerie Jarrett

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a…

— Mother Teresa

After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say,…

— Ashley Roberts

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

— Erich Fromm

“You have to be out of your mind. What kind of clinic lets people operate on themselves?” “Well, Suture Self.” ”

— Steve Bates

“You are free. Your mind belongs to you. Your thoughts are yours. Honor the sacred territory of your freedom and individuality.”

— Bryant McGill

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can…

— Anonymous

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to…

— Conor Oberst

“Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike…

— Alain de Botton

For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity…

— Eckhart Tolle

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.…

— William George Jordan

“Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sardar says…

— Lyndsay Faye

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise…

— Kenny Smith

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

— Audre Lorde

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

— Emmet Gowin

I'm blessed with good genes, but I also love to look my best self.

— Farrah Abraham

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

— L. Ron Hubbard

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

— Seth

Casino Royale' was fabulous and I saw 'Bourne Identity' over and over again.

— Akshaye Khanna

“Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.”

— Steve Maraboli

Remember: it's not about how self confident you are. It's about how self confident you seem.

— Anonymous

I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.

— Grayson Allen

Just be happy with who you are as an individual! You don't need to be like others to love yourself.

— Anonymous

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

— Ron Perlman

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.

— Sushan R Sharma

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

— Wilferd Peterson

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

— Bill Johnson