Quotes About Identity

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Ur pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

Self-respect comes from acting in accordance with your fundamental nature. Let your individuality and uniqueness to shine.

Learn your self-worth and respect yourself.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone elses eyes.

The greatest achievement of all? Finding yourself.

The earlier you know yourself, the easier life will be. After that, distraction is gone, and you can focus on everything else

A person who does not remember where he came from will never reach his destination.

The greatest horror in the world is not finding a monster but finding out you are the monster.

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I'm too tired to be me.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Spending your life trying to convince others that do not matter, that you are worthy, is a waste of time and energy. As long God and you know it that all that really matters.

Never forget, your esteem is what makes you who you are. For you have been and always will be the total sum of the faith that you carry deep within!

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best

For a man to find himself, he first must look for himself.

To be different isn't about changing yourself, it's about knowing yourself enough to never want to be someone.

It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousiesits as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all thats left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.