Quotes about Identity
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
- William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
- William Golding
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- William Golding
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
- William Hazlitt
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James
I overhear the Manyuema telling each other that I am the "good one." I have no slaves, and I owe this character to the propagation of a good name by the slaves of Zanzibar, who are anything but good themselves.
- David Livingstone
Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.
- David Livingstone Smith
Whatever God's Word says I am - that's what I am! Whatever His Word says I can do - with His help I can do! Whatever His Word says He will do - He will do!
- Kenneth Copeland
You don't have a god in you, you are one.
- Kenneth Copeland
Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.
- Louie Giglio