Our Identity Quotes

#1. We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#2. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

#3. It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

Northrop Frye

#4. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. Having met other immigrants like myself in America, I can say that a great number of us came to our same "Oriental" identity in a similar fashion. We arrived in the United States as Japanese or Korean or Filipino, but over time we became Orientals.

Alex Tizon

#6. When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

Margaret Feinberg

#7. What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

Diane Ackerman

#8. Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Noah Feldman

#9. When we are willing to let God shape our identity, He will take whatever we have to offer and multiply it in ways and for a purpose that we cannot even begin to imagine.

Tim Tebow

#10. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#11. On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.

Patty Houser

#12. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life.

Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Ruth Ahmed

#13. Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Brenda Shoshanna

#14. 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.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. In a way, our family is our modern identity.

Susanne Bier

#16. No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Adyashanti

#17. You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

John Updike

#19. I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Erica Jong

#20. Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

Bell Hooks

#21. Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can.

Steven Pressfield

#22. You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

David A. Bednar

#23. According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that "he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."4 The meaning of our lives emerges in the surrender of ourselves to an adventure of becoming who we are not yet.

Brennan Manning

#24. To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

Michael Doucet

#25. We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Chip Conley

#26. My friend Ronald Gottesman says ... that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

Chris Abani

#27. Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?

Sergio Chejfec

#28. Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.

Afnan Ahmad Mia

#29. In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

Gretchen Rubin

#30. When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.

Amy E. Spiegel

#31. I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

Olivo Barbieri

#32. Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sue Monk Kidd

#33. I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

Mark Twain

#34. Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

Esther Perel

#35. Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose.

Dillon Burroughs

#36. Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self.

Alain De Botton

#37. When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

Thalia

#38. The real identity is projected only through our deeds, what we leave behind, unchanging and merging with our ultimate reality.

Gian Kumar

#39. Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

James A. Baldwin

#40. Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Miguel Syjuco

#41. There seems to be this assumption that when we have "found ourselves" we have centered on one single version of who we can be. Why is the key to sincerity the pursuit of a single identity? Why is it assumed that our authenticity, whether personal or artistic, lies in "discovering" one single track?

Pablo Helguera

#42. We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Ethan Hawke

#43. I don't like this, Toua," I go on. "We're like birds that have flown a very long way from their nest. We're like nettles in a garden full of hops. We shouldn't have to hide who we are. Our faces are unseen.

Rose Christo

#44. What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

David Blunkett

#45. We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#46. Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Tariq Ramadan

#47. A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

Jake Barton

#48. The path to wealth is also the path to our spiritual identity.

Daniel Marques

#49. Silence is victory and patience is glory.
Let silence speak our identity
and let patience keep our dignity.

Aram Seriteratai

#50. When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

Deepak Chopra

#51. One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Mark Zuckerberg

#52. We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

#53. We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.

Blake Crouch

#54. Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Jose Marti

#55. COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times.

Lee Johnson

#56. We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Marcel Proust

#57. 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.

Dalai Lama

#58. Our identity is anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not our own; Christ's strength, not ours; Christ's pedigree and track record, not ours; Christ's victory, not ours. Who we really are has nothing to do with us at all - rather, it has everything to do with what Jesus has done for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#59. One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity
not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Terri E Apter

#60. 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

#61. Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny ... To work out our identity in God.

Thomas Merton

#62. Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.

Mary Robinson

#63. We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Sunday Adelaja

#64. Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

Paul L Wachtel

#65. Who we truly are is who God created us to be. That's what's most important. Our true identity is seen in light of God. He determines the destiny of our life.

Louie Giglio

#66. Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Chris Hedges

#67. Our physical identity or what I may call the social identity is the most interesting.

Gian Kumar

#68. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Henri Nouwen

#69. When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.

Bryant McGill

#70. How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Tilda Swinton

#71. The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

Gavin Newsom

#72. Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

Neil Young

#73. Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#74. We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us.

Nalini Singh

#75. Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

Bill Johnson

#76. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.

Jeff Long

#77. Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Gail Sheehy

#78. What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

Melissa Etheridge

#79. Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior.

Carol Fuery

#80. Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

Barack Obama

#81. After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

Brian K. Vaughan

#82. In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Jane Smiley

#83. But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.

Marcel Proust

#84. The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Matthew McConaughey

#85. This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.

Rigoberta Menchu

#86. Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

Nicole Krauss

#87. We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.

Alain De Botton

#88. Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

Jack Kornfield

#89. Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Jeb Bush

#90. Our talents don't define us any more than our faults.

Marty Rubin

#91. For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.

Chris Brogan

#92. The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Deborah Tall

#93. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?

J.G. Ballard

#94. We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

W. Phillip Keller

#95. Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Mark Buchanan

#96. The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#97. Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#98. Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

John O'Donohue

#99. Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Sunday Adelaja

#100. We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Penelope Lively