Quotes About Identity

Just remember, who you are, and always take that with you, wherever you do go.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are the best version of you.

My dream is all have, and all I am.

My dream is all I have and all I am.

My mission is all I am, will be and want to be.

Never, should you, reveal all the dimensions of yourself.

Nothing is a constant in our lives; not money, ambitions, people, or anything else, except you; yourself, alone.

The you that you want to be is always opposite to the you that you truly are.

To Be who one is, is the greatest Be of All.

To become nothing is much more difficult than to become something.

To live in a place is to live by their values.

You must first be nothing to become something.

Cleo McDowell Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

If I exist, I am not another

At last it had come, the day when I should become a hog! I tried out my teeth on the bark of trees; I contemplated my snout with delight. There was not remaining the least morsel of divinity. I was capable of raising my soul up to the excessive elevation of that ineffable sensuality.

In the middle as in the beginning of life, angels resemble themselves: how long it has been since I ceased to resemble myself!

Je suis fils de l'homme et de la femme, d'après ce qu'on m'a dit. Ça m'étonne... je croyais être davantage! Au reste, que m'importe d'où je viens? Moi, si cela avait pu dépendre de ma volonté, j'aurais voulu être plutôt le fils de la femelle du requin, dont la faim est amie des tempêtes, et du tigre, à la cruauté reconnue: je ne serais pas si méchant.

I just don't give a damn, woman. White or black, I want you for what you are.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.

I would rather be ignored than patronized, I said, pointing to the tendency of the Democratic party to talk about women, minorities and the poor. I hated identity politics and the self-satisfied people who assume that they were free of prejudices when in fact they too could not see beyond color to the individual.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.