Identity Quotes · Page 89

“It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

— Edouard Vuillard

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

— Diane Arbus

“Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.”

— Bryant McGill

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

— Rory Vaden

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

— Belly

You will never know the power of your self.until some hurts you badly.

— Anonymous

“The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.”

— Bryant McGill

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

— Camille Paglia

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody…

— David O. Russell

“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no…

— Marcel Proust

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“World is so beautiful when you look beyond your self-interest. Success and self do not work together. Rise up the ordinary.”

— Mayur Ramgir

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking?…

— Hyrum W. Smith

“My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for…

— Anonymous

“What happens when we lose the things that anchor us? What if, instead of grasping at something to hold on to, we…

— Rachel Friedman

“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm,…

— Hermann Hesse

“What kind of person am I? Am I even actually a person? I can never quite reach any kind of conclusion, sometimes…

— Ulli Lust

“And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each…

— Matt Bellamy

“They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.…

— Ved Vyasa

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

“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by…

— Nathaniel Branden

That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share…

— Robert E. Quinn

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

— Sakyong Mipham

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Some things are permanent in life, all you can do is leave with it or kill ur self.

— Malcolm Ribeiro

“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.”

— Lin Wilder

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

— Vernon Howard

Iam iniquity iam powerful beyond measure we ask our selfs who iam not to be

— Anonymous

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

— Sarah McBride

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

— Adam Levine

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

— Hari Nef

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

— Marlon Riggs

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

— Stephen Charnock

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

— Neil Strauss

“You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed”

— Sunday Adelaja

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset