Identity Quotes

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.

Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status

You are not who you think you are.

Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says “come hither” to be reason enough to go.

The grace, faith, love and power of God will uplift you to greater heights.

I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Evil things you do to others show your personality and thus identify you, and the good ones come back to you too… - Cocoy McCoy -

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it, ” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve concluded that I don’t want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.

What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.

Owning Languages, Owning identities.

One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

I was trying to work out who I was.

The less human you feel, the more human you become.

Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.

To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity.

Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

It’s the sensation that gives rise to ego or personal identity. All the external and internal experiences of life are experienced only with the sensation.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.'-Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, poem by Marieta Maglas

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.”- Near Kin

Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.

Who can give a man this, his own name?

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, " Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.