Self Identity Quotes

#1. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

Aloe Blacc

#2. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Charles Duhigg

#3. Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#4. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Anthony Giddens

#5. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#6. Self-identity is about content not the container that carry
the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#7. My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Robert Griffin III

#8. The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

Antonio Damasio

#10. The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, the anxiety of always.

Sherry Turkle

#11. You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

Amy Tan

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Amy Tan

#14. What you believe really does affect how you live, how you look at God, how you look at the world around you, how you look at yourself, and how you feel about reality. What you believe is vital for your whole worldview, your self-identity, and your understanding of your mission.

James T. Bradford

#15. However, such an understanding is problematic. Barcan Marcus, for example, suggested that "Individuals must be there before they enter into relations, even relations of self-identity".29

Steven French

#16. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.

Scarlet Risque

#20. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

#21. I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. Everything is music for the born musician.

Romain Rolland

#23. There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Dorothy West

#25. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.

Sean Michael Hayes

#26. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.

Sol Luckman

#27. Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.

Anthony Marais

#28. One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Jan Struther

#29. Self: Person, identity; your identity
Defense: Protection, security

Kym Rock

#30. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

Fennel Hudson

#31. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#32. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Thomas Merton

#33. Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself, and show the impurities preventing you from moving forward and help you to identify your unique gift, life mission and destination

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

Siri Hustvedt

#35. You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are

Sunday Adelaja

#36. Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

Pete Sanders

#37. A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

Fennel Hudson

#38. An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

Sam Owen

#39. You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Jean Thompson

#40. There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#41. We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

Donella Meadows

#42. Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

William Stringfellow

#43. Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#44. Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.

Fennel Hudson

#45. Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.

Shon Mehta

#46. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation

Sunday Adelaja

#47. It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

Sara Baume

#48. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Vironika Tugaleva

#49. Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

Beth Moore

#50. 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

#51. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.

Toni Sorenson

#52. The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

Stephen LaBerge

#53. A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

William James

#54. To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism - a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she's more than what lies between her legs.

Caroline George

#55. Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

Miranda July

#56. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#57. Our heart mends as our inner self - the central or innermost part of our identity - is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things.

Suzanne Eller

#58. When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things ...

Rene Descartes

#59. Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

Chris Matakas

#60. Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

James Comey

#61. 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

#62. ( ... )I don't know who I am. I look like Stephen Herondale, and I act like a Lightwood and I talk like my father- like Valentine. So I see myself in your eyes and i try to be that person and I think faith might be enough to make me who you wnat me to be. (Jace, to Clary)

Cassandra Clare

#63. Unlock untie yourself from people who rope u into redundancy

Ikechukwu Joseph

#64. New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self-expression. But yoking one's identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies - and lacking the time, opportunity, or inclination to explore life and lives offline - may result in an impoverished sense of self.

Gardner Howard

#65. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#66. It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#67. The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

Stephen Knapp

#68. This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#69. Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Frank Herbert

#70. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#71. 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.

Lisa Firestone

#72. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Masamune Shirow

#73. By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

Alain De Botton

#74. A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another's path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment

Gary Hopkins

#75. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Leonardo Donofrio

#76. We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.

Tom Jaine

#77. The word "identification" is derived from the Latin word idem, meaning "same" and facere, which means "to make." So when I identify with something, I "make it the same." The same as what? The same as I. I endow it with a sense of self, and so it becomes part of my "identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#78. Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

Bryant McGill

#79. Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

Mary J. Blige

#80. And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.

Imbolo Mbue

#81. 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

#82. To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.

William T. Cavanaugh

#83. Awakening is the experience of forgiving the illusion of manifesting, for Identity Is Spirit. Christ comes not into form, but calls you out of the world to recognize your Self as eternal Spirit.

David Hoffmeister

#84. Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

Sarah Churchwell

#85. Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials

Sunday Adelaja

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

Liana Brooks

#87. I'm not the person I used to be. I never was.

Marty Rubin

#88. Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Slash Coleman

#89. You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.

Katie Dale

#90. When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

Jit Sharma

#91. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Simon Armitage

#92. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery

#93. People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Gregory Benford

#94. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Charles Taylor

#95. If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#96. I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer

#97. We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#98. Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Fennel Hudson

#99. We need to know who we are and then stand strong

Sunday Adelaja

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

Bryant McGill