Identity Quotes · Page 73

Total unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

— Anonymous

Don't regret anything you do cause in the end it makes you who you are. We are all unique.

— Anonymous

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

— Rituparna Sengupta

I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.

— Jessica Alba

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

— Basil Hume

“Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...”

— Anonymous

“A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction”

— Michael Chabon

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be…

— Lucy Stone

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in…

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that…

— Leon Wieseltier

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that…

— Alanis Morissette

And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic…

— Georg Ganswein

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant…

— Frederick Lenz

“As we all are unique, so is the greatness of each person. Only the individual knows whether he/she is fulfilled.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from…

— Walter Scott

“Identity development of young adults was studied in terms of achieved levels of diff erentiation of self (Allain, 2009). In this case,…

— Herbert Goldenberg

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of…

— Gustave Flaubert

So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the…

— Ossian Everett Mills

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that…

— Albert Bandura

Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly…

— Rod Stryker

Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or…

— Murathan Mungan

“The individual soul (jivatma), because it has drawn the senses around itself, experiences the pleasures, desires, and pains of the world. “People…

— The Bhagavad Gita

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what…

— Tom Robbins

I feel proud to be a member of SHINee. It is a great team with a unique identity.

— Lee Tae-min

“I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.”

— Sam Harris

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

— Susan Sontag

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

— Oswald Chambers

“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

“Do you have an opinion or did you just become everyone else?”

— Karl Kristian Flores

“To study the self is to forget the self. Mi casa, su casa.”

— Phil Knight

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

— Ralph Blum

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

— Oprah Winfrey

As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

— Nigel Barker

“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?”

— Virginia Woolf

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

— George A. Sheehan

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

— Ezra Miller

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

— Pharrell Williams

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce