Identity Quotes

Identity Quote of the day

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Through others we become ourselves.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.