Identity Quote by Maxwell Maltz

Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

— Maxwell Maltz

“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 sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the…

— Erving Goffman

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

— Anonymous

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful…

— Deepak Chopra

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

— Ramana Maharshi

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and…

— Judith M Bardwick

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks -…

— Geoff Mulgan