Identity Quotes · Page 125

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

— Neil Oliver

Use all you can have in your self to be one, don't use others.

— Kent Lariosa

“when u are worried about who u are suposed to be, u never get to learn who u are”

— Jomny Sun

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

— Eleanor Catton

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

— Meg Cabot

“I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

— Stephen Covey

“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I.…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Identity capital is our collection of personal assets...These are the investments we make in ourselves, the things we do well enough, or…

— Meg Jay

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system…

— Valerie Plame

“The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the…

— James Fallows

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital…

— Naomi Wolf

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I…

— Oprah Winfrey

It's just my identity was shaped entirely by being a working-class woman focused on a single goal. But once you start to…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person…

— John Green

In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,…

— June Jordan

Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep…

— Sarah Newton

“Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“In the ancient Indian Upanishads, the answer to the question “Who am I?” is “Tat tvam asi.” This succinct Sanskrit sentence means…

— Stanislav Grof

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us…

— Hunter Schafer

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond…

— Ajahn Chah

“To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership…

— Cornel West

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from…

— Kabir Bedi

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My brand is about self-expression and doing things authentic to me and not to make money.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

— Kimberly Elise

“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.”

— Gayle Forman

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

— Jeff Koons

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

— Melissa Etheridge

“Your private self must become the same as your public self.”

— John Kuypers

“If you want to be something, be it, do not fret over what others are thinking”

— Clarissa Pattern

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be your authentic self, that way you have no competition

— Denise Clark

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

— Chetan Bhagat

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

— Jack Balkin

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

— Woodrow Wilson