Identity Quotes · Page 59

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

— Doug Liman

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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Bryant McGill

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

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm…

— David Rockwell

There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit…

— Henry B. Eyring

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be…

— Nancy Etcoff

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may…

— Nick Joaquín

“I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err...being or whatever it is you are, person!"…

— Madison Thorne Grey

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real…

— Edmund White

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I…

— Luigi Pirandello

“The same is true about the conventional sense of self — the feeling of being a subject inside your head, a locus…

— Anonymous

“You can let the life and the family you were born into dictate the definition of your very being, regardless of what…

— Anonymous

The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around…

— James Lileks

“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in…

— Václav Havel

“The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me.…

— Jen Hatmaker

“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or…

— Alexei Panshin

“Self care is any action you purposefully take to improve your physical, emotional or spiritual well being. Too often, we do not…

— Eleanor Brownn

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

— Shashank Rayal

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Debbie Millman

“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

“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

Its hard to simultaneously hold onto self-hatred when youre actively engaged in acts of charity.

— Senoraroy

“All the circumstances are natural whilst the tranquility is our own [the Self's]! ”

— Dada Bhagwan

When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.

— John de Ruiter

“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.”

— Giannis Delimitsos

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

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

— R. Alan Woods