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A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Djuna Barnes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

Mary Pipher

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

Kay Stepkin

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

Erich Fromm

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.

Lila Swell

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

David Quammen

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

John Perry Barlow

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Richard R. Grant

Identity may be termed as action which is conscious of itself.

Jane Roberts as Seth

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

Erik H. Erikson

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

Vaclav Havel

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

What then is personal identity? It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very complex orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or "soul"

Professor Hartshorne

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

Erich Fromm

By writing I create an identity for myself. Without it I wouldn't feel being anybody, thus a personality. - It's not as much a question of self-expression as a need of finding yourself.

Pentti Saarikoski

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

Beatrice Webb

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