Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
- It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
- It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else's perfectly.
- It is better to understand who you are than where you are going—for where you are going will almost certainly change.
- It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
- It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
- It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them.
- It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
- It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
- It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
- It sucks to not be liked. But it sucks more to not be yourself.
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
- Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.
- Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
- Know your strongest Point—your pre-eminent gift; cultivate that and you will assist the rest. Every one would have excelled in something if he had known his strong point. Notice in what quality you surpass, and take charge of that.
- Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.
- Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.
- Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.
- Let your failures refine you, not define you.
- Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.
- Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.
- Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are.
- Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
- Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbreak on.
- Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.
- Man has to become changed within before his life can be altered.
- Man is made by his belief. As he believes so he is.
- Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
- Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.