Identity Quotes · Page 92

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

— Robin Sharma

“In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

'Ek Hazaaron Mein' turned out to be my identity, it made me Nia Sharma in the industry.

— Nia Sharma

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

— Adam Conover

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

— Gregory Maguire

“I'm a bashful individual, though I can't get anyone to believe it...”

— Louisa May Alcott

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

— Mary Astell

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

— Frederick Lenz

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

— Will Self

We can't be Everybody. That is why God made us as individuals...to be Somebody. We may need each other but we don't…

— Terry Mark

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through…

— Abhijit Naskar

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living .…

— Laurens van der Post

I want to do my best and feel my best and hopefully see more trans women like me, or similar to me…

— Alex Consani

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over…

— Vladimir Lenin

When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured…

— Sherman Alexie

“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river,…

— Michael Dorris

As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives…

— Carl Jung

“Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not…

— Fernando Pessoa

Being half-Jamaican, half-Chinese in a very white area, it created a real identity crisis for me as a kid. But I'd travel…

— Griff

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community…

— Orhan Pamuk

“How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop…

— Steve Maraboli

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

— John le Carre

It has come to my realisation that everything is a matter of adaptation.

— Anette Sandberg

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

— Boris Sidis

“I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.”

— Margaret Mead

Choices you made in your past determine who you are in today's society.

— Wazim Shaw

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

— Bill Bryson

“How much of me is my own, and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?”

— Thi Bui

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

— Sharon Stone

“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.”

— Lauren Slater

“But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.”

— Sherwood Smith

When the collective works, the individuals with show themselves.

— Gabriel Jesus

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

— Frederick Lenz

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

— AnnaLynne McCord

“Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

There comes a time when the nation is great than an individual

— James Mwenda