Identity Quotes - Page 4

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

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

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

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.'

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

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.

Always, always lead by example. Those whom you lead will be quick to grasp the true identity of a truly professional NCO and will be more willing to follow, obey and persevere.