Finding Identity Quotes

#1. Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.

David A.R. White

#2. When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

David Richo

#3. Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Robert E. Terwilliger

#4. I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

Michael Douglas

#5. He stopped the horse abruptly, turning to look at me. One act of kindness cannot repay all the sins I have committed.

H.A. Lamb

#6. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

#7. Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

James McBride

#8. Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them
the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W. H. Auden

#9. We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

Jane Fulton Alt

#10. When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

W. Kamau Bell

#11. Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

Anne Lamott

#12. I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Josh Lucas

#13. There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

May Sarton

#14. But, do not stay there. Spiritual adulthood has higher goals than "finding yourself." A reactive stage is a stage, not an identity. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

Henry Cloud

#15. Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

Kevin DeYoung

#16. Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Raquel Cepeda

#17. Everything is music for the born musician.

Romain Rolland

#18. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

Alan Redpath

#19. Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

Habeeb Akande

#21. These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.

Alexandra Kleeman

#22. To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Marshall Allman

#23. And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Robert Klein

#24. You drink from the source to become the source. You lose your identity in Him to become like Him."
Secrets to Divine Manifestation: Finding Your Life Purpose Through the Rebirth of Your Soul

Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

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

Charlotte Eriksson

#26. The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question "why am I here? What am doing here?

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#28. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Carson McCullers

#29. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Hilarie Burton

#30. 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.

Marco Beltrami

#31. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#32. I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.

Steve-O