Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- We can be our own best friends or we can be our own worst enemies.
- We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
- We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- We hear much said of "environment." We need to realize that environment should never be allowed to make the man, but that man should always, and always can, condition the environment.
- We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
- We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
- Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought to be as we do to disguise what we really are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
- What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph AddisonCommonly attributed
- What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
- What we are depends entirely upon the images we hold before our mind’s eye.
- What we have been makes us what we are.
- What we know matters but who we are matters more.
- What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are.
- What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
- What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself.
- What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.
- Whatever estimate you put upon yourself will determine the effectiveness of your work along any line.
- Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing!
- When excellence becomes a habit, then that’s just who you are.
- When people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.
- When will poets learn that a grass-blade of their own raising is worth a barrow load of flowers from their neighbor’s garden?
- When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
- When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.
- When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
- When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
- Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
- Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for.
- Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love – is the sum of what you focus on.
- Who you surround yourself with is who you become.
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
- Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? 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 he hears, however measured or far away.
- Work to improve yourself, not prove yourself.