Best 2380 quotes in «identity quotes» category

You need to find your gift, something you can achieve better than others

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

You need to find your gift, something you love doing

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.

Your addiction is not your identity, but you won't know that until you're in recovery; that's when the two separate.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

You're doing your thing, why can't I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it.

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.

You're not a superhero. You're a spy. With a gun. You're not Wing-Knight or Nightwing or whatever. You're agent 37.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

Your food will converge with my food Your clothes will stitch with my clothes Your culture will merge with my culture We'll create something beautiful Something new We'll call it our culture

Your first thought is what you've been conditioned to think; what you think next defines who you are.

Your gift is not what you do but what you really are

Your identity is not of your making; it is thrust on you from the day you are born.

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

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

Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been

Your identity doesn't come from your address.

Your identity lies not in your name or your background, but in your actions.

Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.

Your name is not sufficient for your identity

Your name is who you are, what defines you. Ancient Egyptians even believed names themselves had power. You take away someone's name, or change it, you're taking away a part of them. You are your name.

Your PAST nor your CURRENT situation DEFINES you – YOU are defined by the CHOICES you make NOW for your future.

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

You sea! I resign myself to you also- I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me. We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God, "the face you had before you were born," as the Zen masters say. It is your substantial self, your absolute identify, which can never be gained nor lost by any technique, group affiliation, morality, or formula whatsoever. The surrendering of our false self, which we have usually taken for our absolute identity, yet is merely a relative identity, is the necessary suffering needed to find "the pearl of great price" that is always hidden inside this lovely but passing shell.

Your skin and plague don't define you.

You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

You've got to see me, Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men.

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?

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.

A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes accross a Sprititual Teacher.

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.