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Quotes About Identity

Consciousness will grow as we become aware of what makes us who we are. What we think, what we feel, how we act, what actions do we proceed with.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
~ Cassandra Clare
Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are.
~ Unknown
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
~ William James
Act as if you are the person you want to be.
~ Bernie Siegel
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.
~ Jeff Cooper
Why did you stick me in self-deprecating bones and skin; do you hate me?
~ Unknown
Was going to make facebook page but couldn't think of a self-description that wouldn't sound pathetic.
~ Unknown
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
~ Uma Thurman
Your job description is not your self description. Who you are is more important then what you do!
~ Unknown
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take a moment. Ask yourself, "Have I changed for the better or the worse? Who am I living my life for?" Self-evaluation.
~ Unknown
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.
~ Arsene Houssaye
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of ones identity as being of worth and dignity.
~ Rollo May
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
~ Thales
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
~ Andre Malraux
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
~ James Baldwin
Identity may be termed as action which is conscious of itself.
~ Unknown
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
~ John Perry Barlow
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
~ David Quammen
Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.
~ Unknown
Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
~ Erich Fromm
Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.
~ Unknown