Quotes About Identity

I remember looking at myself in the mirror one morning and thinking, I am not a handsome guy. What am I going to do with a face like this? Then I smiled. And I thought, That helps.

El animador Danny Thomas insistía en que «todos hemos nacido por una razón, pero no todos descubrimos el porqué.

A servant leader's value rests in why he does what he does and how well he does it, not in what he does or how often he does it. This allows him to find value in who he is.

You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

Muchos tienen éxito inmediato por lo que saben; Algunos tienen éxito temporal por lo que hacen; pero Pocos logran éxito permanente por lo que son.

We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become.

People cannot perform in a way inconsistent with the way they see themselves.

La honestidad no es algo que haces; la honestidad es quién eres».

You have to be yourself while speaking someone else's language.

Influence begins with who you are.

Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.

I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out for you.

Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.

Baz? insanlar tutkular?n? bir maceradan çok bir performans olarak yaÅŸarlar.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists – all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

I'd arrived after the matinee and still remember an autograph hunter at the stagedoor asking me, 'Are you anybody?' I was tempted to answer him ontologically, but instead told him a white lie, and denied my own existence.)

Here's a definition of Wokeism : There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of being offended.

It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born.