130+ Best Quotes About Identity

Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go. – Doug Cooper

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. – Kenneth Lee Pike

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it but to try to understand it and use it as a foundation to grow. – Jay Z

Identity is a relation between our cognition of a thing, not between things themselves.        – Sir. W. Hamilton

Identity is not inherent.  It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. – Dorothy West

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn’t rush into it. – David Quammen

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It’s invisible like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life. – Tony Robbins

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation – especially in the suburbs. – Melissa Bean

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.       – Patricia Briggs

If I wasn’t me, you wouldn’t be you. – Kamila Shamsie

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. – Sarah Schulman

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I’m 98 per cent of the way to stealing your identity. – Frank Abagnale

If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take. – Helmut Lang

If you take away people’s identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don’t be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.                  – Nigel Farage

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity. – August Wilson

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.    – Mark Zuckerberg

In many ways, I think I’m still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.          – Neri Oxman

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. – Erik Erikson

Inside us, there is something that has no name that something is what we are.                  – José Saramago

Integrity simply means not violating one’s own identity. – Erich Fromm

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.    – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. – Andre Guide

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.                  – Neri Oxman

It’s amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. – Frank Abagnale

It’s challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don’t have the sustenance of love because you’re being shipped around. – Mary J. Blige

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. – Deepak Chopra

Struggling is not the identity. You must learn to live while you struggle, such that anyone who sees you can separate the struggle from your life. – Unknown

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.                                 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.                            – Floriano Martins

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. – John O’Donohue

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. – Sallust

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.         – Frank Abagnale

The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit. – Lao Tzu

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.                  – John Le Carré

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.                       – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are … and making peace with it.               – Laurell K. Hamilton

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures. – Johan Cruyff

The search for personal identity is the life task of a teenager. – Haim Ginott

The value of identity, of course, is so often with it come to the purpose. – Richard Grant

The Western world is having an identity crisis. – Marianne Williamson

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. – Cyril Cusack

There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else. – Susie Clevenger

Time is the enemy of identity. – Michael Moorcock

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. –  Robert Louis Stevenson

To know who you are is the greatest power of all. – Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love

True identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.       – Stephen Covey

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness. – Brenda Shoshanna

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – B. R. Ambedkar

We all need a firm sense of identity. – Christopher Eccleston

We all need a past – that’s where our sense of identity comes from. – Penelope Lively

We must not be anything other than what we are. – Maaza Mengiste

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity. –  Chip Conley

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. – Winston S Churchill

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. – Ralph Ellison

When you are worried about who you are supposed to be, you never get to learn who you are. – Jonny Sun

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive. – Unknown

When you start living for someone, you lose your identity. – Amit Jupi

When you’re in your twenties, it’s the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you’re going to be in life. – Irvine Welsh

Who knows who you are … A person is a novel: you don’t know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be worth reading to the very end.                             – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Without dignity, identity is erased. – Laura Hillenbrand

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. – Don DeLillo

You cannot hide your true self forever. – Cassandra Clare

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living in. – Fernando Flores

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.     – Thabo Mbeki

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you’re from, what your class is – those aspects of your identity is not the same as your aesthetic identity. – Stanley Crouch

Your identity is grounded in your desire to help produce positive, meaningful, and long-lasting change in your life. – Senora Roy

Your identity is your most valuable possession.  Protect it. – Eastigirl