Identity Quotes · Page 112

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

— Frederick Lenz

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

— John F. Kennedy

Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.

— Robin S. Sharma

“There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.”

— Rose Tremain

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

— Andrew McCarthy

Maybe I'm a crazy girl...but at least I'm not so ignorant as you...I'm allergic to self centered people.

— Anonymous

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

— Lidia Bastianich

[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be…

— Rush Limbaugh

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

— Adi Shankara

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that…

— Patrisse Cullors

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play,…

— Valerie June

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now…

— Thomas Frank

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done…

— Louise Bogan

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed,…

— David Hume

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of…

— David Novak

“We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each…

— Gloria Anzaldúa

“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part…

— Christine A. Courtois

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would…

— Louis Aragon

“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a…

— Jack Donovan

“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.…

— Steven Pressfield

“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware…

— Eckhart Tolle

Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of…

— Vivian Gornick

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

— Narendra Modi

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

— Frederick Lenz

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

— Deepak Chopra

From the words of juan gris himself, I am cubism, I am life its self.

— Juan Gris

Introspecting self is a mission, whose aim is to stay planted in reality.

— Senoraroy

“Its impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

— Orson Scott Card Ender's Game

I'm going to play as long as I can, but my identity is not in this game.

— Anthony Rendon

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

— Kate Middleton

“Where there is knowledge of the Self, there is immortality.”

— Shiva Negi

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

— Elton Gallegly

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

— Eric Hoffer

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.”

— Demetra Angelis Foustanellas

“A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.”

— Fennel Hudson

The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.

— David Hepworth