Identity Quotes

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

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

James Baldwin

[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

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

Jane Roberts as Seth

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

Erich Fromm

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

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

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

Kay Stepkin

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

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

David Quammen

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

Djuna Barnes

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both

Ursula K. LeGuin