Quotes about Identity
Influence begins with who you are.
— John Maxwell
Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.
— John Maxwell
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
— Margaret Mead
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
— Carl Jung
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
— Ayn Rand
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
— Rick Warren
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
— Alfred Doblin
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
— Frederick Douglass