Top 100 Quotes About Identity Is
#1. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Toby Young
#2. This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Northrop Frye
#3. To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#4. Identity is theft, don't trust anyone whose state vector hasn't forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.
Charles Stross
#5. I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
Walter Salles
#6. Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
Boris Trajkovski
#7. Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.
Lee Johnson
#8. 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
#9. For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.
Sergio Chejfec
#10. My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Lena Horne
#11. Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#12. One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.
Gretchen Rubin
#13. The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.
Haim Ginott
#15. And even when you can't get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.
Steven Furtick
#16. It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.
Mili Avital
#17. Aren't you at all curious about your past?" Rhys asked.
"No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were."
"But as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future."
"In physics, yes. In people, no.
Jeffrey Perren
#18. Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Juan Goytisolo
#19. Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.
Murathan Mungan
#20. One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#22. So if God's first move is to give us our identity, then the devil's first move is to throw that identity into question. Identity is like the tip of a spool of thread, which when pulled, can unwind the whole
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#23. the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.
June Jordan
#24. Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
Marc Guggenheim
#25. Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is
Sunday Adelaja
#26. It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.
Leon Wieseltier
#27. Identity is something that you are constantly earning.
Joss Whedon
#28. Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.
Jared Taylor
#30. 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
#31. We are defined by what we believe in. Identity is shaped by what we believe is right. Culture is cultured, pun intended; by what we believe is right.
Hlovate
#32. No one likes to find out that the story he always believed about his own identity is false.
Orson Scott Card
#33. In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.
Henri Nouwen
#34. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
Jimmy Carter
#35. Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
Elena Ferrante
#36. A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
Gore Vidal
#37. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.
David Blankenhorn
#38. Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.
Genesis P-Orridge
#39. When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.
Patty Houser
#40. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
Ann Romney
#41. Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
Camille Paglia
#42. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.
Umberto Eco
#43. In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it.
Dean Koontz
#44. I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
Ziggy Marley
#45. The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Milosevic
#46. It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
Natalie Dormer
#47. The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
Frederick Lenz
#48. I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.
Alice Dreger
#49. Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
Matthew Weiner
#50. A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.
Neil T. Anderson
#51. To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#53. Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death.
Dan Millman
#55. My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
Dalia Mogahed
#56. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist ...
Ron Paul
#57. Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it
David Quammen
#58. Our physical identity or what I may call the social identity is the most interesting.
Gian Kumar
#59. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.
John Steinbeck
#60. 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
#61. Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.
Magnus Backstedt
#62. I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#63. If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy Keller
#64. There are varieties of life unknown to you.
Their whole identity is: you can't find out.
Dan Chiasson
#65. Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
Timothy Keller
#66. I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#67. Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Ang Lee
#68. My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
Toyin Odutola
#69. Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.
Bryant McGill
#70. Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
Tom Spanbauer
#71. 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?
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
Milan Kundera
#73. Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate.
Amit Abraham
#74. I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
Chaz Bono
#75. When our identity is found in Christ, we are free to be honest (James 5:16). If you have faith in Christ, your new identity is secure and robust. Your new identity in Christ is deeper than any of your wounds, sins, suffering, trials, and failures.
Anonymous
#76. Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.
Karen Wheaton
#77. 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
#78. I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.
Heidi Julavits
#80. 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
#81. Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.
Dennis Prager
#82. One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.
Vincent Nichols
#83. Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#84. There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
Tullian Tchividjian
#86. When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost
Kudakwashe Mazendame
#87. Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.
Assegid Habtewold
#88. The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse
#89. In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
Denis Villeneuve
#91. There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#92. Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
Judith Guest
#93. Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.
Tony Robbins
#94. Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
#95. The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic - a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall.
James Baldwin
#96. Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
Henry Rollins
#97. I mean we might even go to war as to whether we love Coke or Pepsi and our whole identity is wrapped up in that choice. You know, for the Russians they felt that these minor differences between these various sodas was just hyped up and irrelevant.
Sheena Iyengar
#98. Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.
Pope Francis
#99. Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to ... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
Caitlyn Jenner
#100. Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.
Theo Coster
