Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable.
- He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- He is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
- He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
- He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- Heredity is much, environment is much, but I am much more.
- How would the person I wish to be act today?
- How you spend your time defines who you are.
- Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.
- Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
- I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
- I am more. I am loved. I am his.
- I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
- I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
- I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.
- I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- I may grow flowers in my garden which you do not like, but the pity is if I allow you to trample them out.
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
- I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
- I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- 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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
- If a man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when trodden on.
- If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
- If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
- If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
- If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
- If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)
- If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.
- If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- If you will be conformed, then you cannot be transformed; if you will not be transformed, then you must be conformed.
- If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- If you’re somebody when you’re successful, what are you when you’re unsuccessful?
- Impossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it be translated into this partially possible one, "Know what thou canst work at.
- In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
- In order to stand out, we have to know what we stand for.
- In such a world as this a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night.