Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
- Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- Men hold themselves cheap and vile: and yet a man is a fagot of thunderbolts.
- Never allow someone else's opinion of you, to become your reality.
- Never apologize for being yourself.
- Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparisons only with yourself.
- NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.
- Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.
- Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.Theodore ParkerSourced
- No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
- No man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one, who mistook them.
- No man ever yet became great by imitation.
- No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you.
- No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you.
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.Virginia WoolfCommonly attributed
- No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.
- No one has the right to brand you as a failure except yourself.
- Normal people expect to be recognized for what they do. Entrepreneurs make their own recognition and create their own reality.
- Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
- Nothing can dim the light that shines from within
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
- Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
- Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
- Our ideals are our better selves.
- Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
- Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
- People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.Joel OsteenCommonly attributed
- People cannot hurt you without your permission.
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
- People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
- Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. … Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.Stephen R. CoveySourced
- Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
- Plato, hearing that some asserted he was a very bad man, said, "I shall take care so to live that nobody will believe them."
- Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by its golden frame, or a book by its silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs.
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.