Quotes About Identity

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

I may not be the prettiest, smartest, or nicest person in the world, but I can say that I am proud of who I am.

We do not know who we are until we take time to discover who we can be. Hidden within us is unrealized potential. Hidden within us is a self we have yet to become.

If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.

I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.

We all have a certain vision of who we want to be. There are times when we put the blame on others for our weaknesses and failures in life. For some reason, no one seems to be happy about who they are now and how their life has turned out to be. But if you come to think of it, you are exactly who you need to be. You just don't realize it yet.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.