Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
- A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition.
- A man's own manner and character is what best becomes him.
- A man's reputation sometimes is as wide as the horizon, when his character is no bigger than the point of a needle. Character is what a man really is, reputation is what men believe him to be.
- A person's a person, no matter how small.
- A poor original is better than a good imitation.
- A stable sense of self-worth stems from putting identity above image: worrying less about what others think of us than what we think of ourselves.
- A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.
- A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
- Above all things reverence thyself.
- Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
- Act like the person you want to be.
- After acquiring true knowledge of himself, I know of nothing so valuable to a young man as an absolute distinctness of purpose, and then pursuing that purpose to success.
- All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
- All strength lies within, not without.
- All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
- Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
- Always remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
- Any belonging that asks us to betray ourselves is not true belonging.
- As work is our life, show me what you can do, and I will show you what you are.
- [Attributed to a friend's Buddhist teacher] Be yourself–but be all of you.
- Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
- Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.
- Authenticity is when you say and do the things you actually believe.
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
- Be a philosopher; but amid all your philosophy, be still a man.
- Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
- Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
- Be what you were meant to be.
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
- Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
- Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.
- Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
- Belonging is not fitting in.
- Belonging starts with self-acceptance.
- Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
- Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.