Identity Quote by Joseph Befumo

“How we think and feel about ourselves has an enormous impact on our ability to perform. A healthy self-image can tip the scales in…

— Kristen Clark

“Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we…

— Jeff Brown

“Self-image is the basis for how you experience--and are experienced by--the outside world.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when…

— Garret Keizer

“Perception is reality, and self-image is self-perception.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

“a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.”

— Bill O'Reilly

“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable…

— Jim Shepard

“When outsiders criticize Americans, they regularly note that we seem self-centered, which we are. But few contend we are selfish, and with good reason;…

— Harry Beckwith

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

“The American attachment to intellectual self-reliance described by Tocqueville survived for nearly a century before falling under a series of assaults from both within…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

— Mona Charen

“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while others can…

— Nancy Isenberg