Identity Quotes · Page 88

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

“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

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

— Lee Tae-min

“What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?”

— Douglas Coupland

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,…

— Elbridge Gerry

What makes clothing so potent is that people incorporate the fashion that they're wearing into their identity. It becomes part of you…

— Christopher Wylie

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

— Kiese Laymon

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I…

— Emir Kusturica

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was…

— Henry Miller

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them…

— Luis Gutierrez

“Self-care is the intentional act of taking time to ensure meeting your mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, romantic, and financial needs when…

— Tanesia Harris

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

— Andrew Solomon

There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I…

— Thomas Merton

“I feel so many things growing—my individuality, my confidence; I feel lines of my character growing stronger. I’m really sprouting, springing up,…

— Anaïs Nin

I've not had it easy in the past - there have been developmental record deals fall through, and I had a lot…

— Carly Pearce

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his…

— Étienne Gilson

We must first know the value of ones self, to know ones self.

— Bria Dumas

We live in such a self-gratifying nation, and everything is instantaneous.

— Jeremy Camp

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

— Anonymous

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

— 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

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

— Win Butler

“An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.”

— Bryant McGill

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“When you understand who you are, you cause the world to change in your favor.”

— E'yen A. Gardner

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face…

— John Carter Cash

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

— Robert Smith Surtees

“What it is,” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.”

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

— Derek Walcott