Identity Quotes

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me, everything that I refuseto See in myself.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."- CBI Agent Sam Rose

Jesus can identify with our weaknesses or failures because He shared in our humanity in the flesh.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

Pain makes people who they are.

Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.

What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

For those of us who are told our families are wrong, we can question more strongly what we believe is right.

What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Mind makes a man of God.

It has the elegance of a sword The might of a shield, How you chose to fight or yieldIts your to wield.Identify your mind.Poem: The Beautiful Mindin ‘Chameleon Lights

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.

I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.

the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed--your self. You must believe in your own powers.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

You are more that the identity your mind creates.

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless

Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own.

If you don’t find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are

The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question “Who am I

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.