Quotes About Identity

I have many names, but only one nature

and that person might be Nickie Haflinger!

Beklager så meget , sa han. Jeg er ikke helt meg selv i kveld. Saken er nemlig den at jeg er død i dette øyeblikk.

It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name.

My name at the first was Graceless.

Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.  But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well.  For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. 

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.

when you find yourself, you find your audience.

One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.

Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become

But the Law of Magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

What you believe identifies who you are.

Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do."8

Who you are determines the way you see everything. You cannot separate your identity from your perspective.

V. Gilbert Beers says, "A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged." Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do. Our

Vision and mission are the head and the heart of people. But values are their soul.

WHO YOU ARE IS WHO YOU ATTRACT—GROW ACCORDINGLY.

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried." —J. R. MILLER

The first key to greatness," Socrates reminds us, "is to be in reality what we appear to be.