Quotes About Identity

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

Always stay in your own movie.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

Freedom and independence is my character.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

I too am a government.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

The States are nations.

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.