Identity Quotes · Page 114

Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.”

— Cameron Conaway

Self centered people need to go live on a island by their damn selves!

— Anonymous

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

— Blaise Pascal

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

— Frederick Lenz

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

— Raquel Cepeda

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

— Martial

“To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them”

— A.W. Tozer

Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as…

— Bill Goldberg

People forget who they are because they are too busy trying to prove to the rest of the world that they are…

— Abhishek Tiwari

“So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall…

— Ambrose Bierce

“My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings…

— Doug Cooper

Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this…

— Burhan Ghalioun

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's…

— James R. Swartz

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New…

— Cyril Connolly

“the ego begins to confront the Self and the Self the ego, and through the mediation of the transcendent function (which we…

— Anthony Stevens

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in…

— Anonymous

I've had many experiences and hold many identities, and I've done a lot of work in all these areas. All of those…

— Laphonza Butler

It is impossible to satisfy self. Self always wants more and more. It is an ugly monster that will devour you if…

— Randa Manning-Johnson

“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said,…

— Emily Esfahani Smith

“In appropriate sacrifice, the self maintins a solicitude for itself amid caring for others. It also feels a strong connection to other…

— Stephanie Golden

“Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we…

— Samuel Beckett

“Who does God say we are? If we’ve received Jesus as our personal Savior, the sum of our identity is found in…

— Beth Moore

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

— Bryant H. McGill

Self centered people always end up with the one they love the most…themselves.

— Anonymous

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

— Henry Golding

“By embracing our own individuality, we break the mold that confines us.”

— Sheila Parker

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

— Devin Townsend

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

— Sherman Alexie

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

— Daniel Cameron

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

— David Duchovny

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

“You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to…

— Brit Bennett

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

— Samuel Smiles

“Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a…

— Troye Sivan

“Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it.”

— Jasmine Sandozz

The challenge is to be ur self in a world that is trying to make u like everyone else

— Crystal

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye