Identity Quotes · Page 80

“Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.”

— David G. Benner

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

— Josh Lucas

“Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.”

— Brooke Hauser

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

— Marilyn French

>> Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change his self.

— Juba Larbes

“A man could lose his identity fucking around too much.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There are many aspects to yourself. Which ones we reveal to ourselves is entirely up to us. To reveal this is a…

— Art Hochberg

Accept yourself with grace and conviction. When you accept yourself with grace and conviction, it means you are strong in your inner…

— Anil Sinha

Do away with negative thoughts about yourself and begin a path of self belief, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. What we think, determines our…

— Anonymous

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity…

— Stanley Crouch

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

— Paul Twitchell

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to…

— Ameen Rihani

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed…

— Douglas Wood

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential…

— Morgan Neville

“Failure to recognize one's own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this is a basic error and the…

— Vladimir Solovyov

“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“I am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is good or bad upayog (applied awareness). ‘I am…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and…

— Holly Sprink

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Though glorification of the self has been a central motif in human history since the Fall, the individual autonomy of the Enlightenment…

— Gale Heide

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of…

— Simon Schama

“I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone’s hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist,…

— Chris Campanioni

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

— Albert Bandura

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.

— Rakim

Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

— Frederick Lenz

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

“from self-assertion, and therefore he is distinguished;”

— Lao Tzu

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

— Deborah Tannen

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

— J. B. Jackson

Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity.

— Annamie Paul

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

Trying to raise my self-image caused me to do everything in excess and defeat my own purpose.

— B. J. Thomas

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

— Valerie Harper

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

— Dianne Reeves

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

— Dennis Quaid

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson