Quotes about Identity

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

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

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'