Your Identity Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

M.L. Stedman

#3. 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

#4. I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.

Giancarlo Esposito

#5. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are

Thomas Beatie

#6. You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

Seamus Heaney

#7. You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Rick Warren

#8. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already.

Rick Riordan

#9. Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. 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

#11. As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

Nigel Barker

#12. When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bill Ayers

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

Kym Rock

#14. 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

#15. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

Janusz Korczak

#17. If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.

Jean Marzollo

#18. Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

Jory John

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

Sunday Adelaja

#20. 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

#21. The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

James Arthur Ray

#22. The end comes to all of us ... but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

Christopher John Farley

#23. You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

Dan Howell

#24. You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

Dennis Prager

#25. 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

#26. You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Terry Brooks

#27. When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

Laura Linney

#28. In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

George Carlin

#29. Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.

John O'Donohue

#30. 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

#31. Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.

Elizabeth George

#32. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

Steve Jobs

#33. From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

#34. There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.

Richard Rohr

#35. The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Ulrich Beck

#36. Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

Lysa TerKeurst

#37. Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

Deepak Chopra

#38. 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

#39. If you don't have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another

Sunday Adelaja

#40. One of the main keys of discovering your gift is question

Sunday Adelaja

#41. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#42. Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own.

Bharath Mamidoju

#43. First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Mike Krzyzewski

#44. When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.

Keifer Thompson

#45. Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.

Patricia Field

#46. I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.

Isabel Allende

#47. When people have awful ideas about your identity, that's just the way it will stay no matter what you do.

Matthew Quick

#48. For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

Calvin Trillin

#49. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

Muriel Barbery

#50. Fortune cookies are an American invention, and we gave it to them. The Chinese were probably like, "Uh, we don't want it." And we were like, "It's now part of your ethnic identity.

Jim Gaffigan

#51. I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never - I promise - regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.

Eugene H. Peterson

#52. ( ... )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

#53. Your work is your identity, your life is your message.

Srivyal Vuyyuri

#54. Know your number. If you don't know it you might forget who you are.

Diane Samuels

#55. You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Donny Osmond

#56. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

Margaret Cho

#57. The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Tia Mowry

#58. 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

#59. When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

Craig Groeschel

#60. 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

#61. Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#62. You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way [as sexy and beautiful] to explore your own identity and make something of it.

Amber Heard

#63. If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

Helmut Lang

#64. Everyone's faith comes from the perceptions of the mind. O Arjuna, the ego-personality is the living embodiment of faith. Your faith is your identity.

Deepak Chopra

#65. You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#66. You can't lose this war, because your Father has already won. This isn't a battle of skin and bones, flesh and blood. This is about your faith, about your identity. When you discover who you truly are, you discover there is no war left to fight at all.

Rachelle Dekker

#67. It is all the question of identity ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

Gertrude Stein

#68. If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

Carl Zimmer

#69. If I came to your town and asked any person on the street, "Which church should I go to if I want to get involved in helping the poor or homeless in this community?" would your church be the first one mentioned? Make this identity your goal.

Dillon Burroughs

#70. A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

H.W. Brands

#71. To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser

#72. Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

Deepak Chopra

#73. If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

Frank Abagnale

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

Masamune Shirow

#75. Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

Carol Queen

#76. Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.

Kim Gordon

#77. Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to ... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

Caitlyn Jenner

#78. I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

Lady Gaga

#79. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

Pope John Paul II

#80. I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Kurt Cobain

#81. So, if you don't fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

George Monbiot

#82. Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Stanley Crouch

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

Bryant McGill

#84. It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

Gertrude Stein

#85. Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#86. Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Queen Latifah

#87. 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

#88. When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Dennis Quaid

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

Liana Brooks

#90. Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#91. I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.

Jonathan Heatt

#92. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.

Alyssa Brugman

#93. You are more that the identity your mind creates.

Steven Redhead

#94. All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Bryant H. McGill

#95. We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

#96. All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

Larry Kramer

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

Fennel Hudson

#98. Fight Like a Girl is a mind-set, a sense of
empowerment that can be applied daily to
everyday decisions. It is to protect yourself,
defend your identity, and secure your selfworth

Kym Rock

#99. Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

Ann Voskamp

#100. If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

Alyssa Brugman