Identity Quotes · Page 126

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

— Elijah Muhammad

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

— Christian Dior

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

— A. S. Byatt

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

— Doug Liman

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

— Will Durant

“In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1”

— Andrew Murray

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

— Anonymous

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense…

— Aberjhani

“Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of ‘our’ own…

— Dada Bhagwan

We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search…

— Steven Harrison

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to…

— Kelsey Grammer

I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I choose to live by choice,not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be useful, not used; to choose self esteem,…

— Simi Ngr

“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my…

— Virginia Woolf

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

— Stephen Covey

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine…

— George C. Lorimer

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and…

— Judith Warner

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like…

— Khalil Gibran

“The self does not stand alone; as we’ve seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather,…

— Robert W. Fuller

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings…

— Vaclav Havel

“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have to place yourself under the sign of your…

— Rachel Kushner

“The Great Ones, the sages of every age, tell me what to look for. They say that the answer lies not elsewhere…

— J. C. Amberchele

“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

— Christina Baldwin

“Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

— Tilda Swinton

“truth of self. to be honest with myself I was never what you wanted I was just the one you settled for”

— R.H. Sin

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

— Debbie Millman

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

— T. S. Eliot

“I wear my backbone as battery, brain is my currency, heart is my bedrock, character is my legacy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Names are used as our Identity... But I want to become an Identity of my Name

— Shashank Rayal

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

— William Wordsworth

I tried to be perfect, I tried to be real, I tried to be myself but I end up being someone else.

— Khat Leen

“The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life”

— Bryant McGill

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

— Ben Bernanke

“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“The mind is capable of amazing feats of self-deception in order to keep its fragile ego intact. My”

— Nat Kozinn

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

— Marcus Aurelius

“If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita