Identity Quotes

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

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.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

I can't give up my own identity.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

To protect one's identity is a Constitutional right.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

My hair is my identity.

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Guns are part of the American identity.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

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.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.