Identity Quotes

Through others we become ourselves.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

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)

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.