Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- Quit wishing you were something different. There’s no mistakes. You’re not faulty. You have been fearfully and wonderfully made.
- Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
- Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
- Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
- Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
- Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.Joan DidionSourced
- So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are.
- Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.
- Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
- Somebody out there thinks you’re an idiot. Somebody out there thinks you’re brilliant. Ignore them both and carry on.
- Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of who we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
- Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
- Stop comparing yourself to everyone else around you.Barbara CorcoranCommonly attributed
- Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.
- Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, and respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.
- Success is the realization of the estimate which you place upon yourself.
- Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
- Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.
- Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
- That which we are we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
- The bee can never be an eagle, but it can make honey.
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
- The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.Leo BuscagliaCommonly attributed
- The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.
- The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
- The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
- The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
- The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
- The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- The key to everything: give yourself permission to be who you really are.
- The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.
- The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
- The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.Ferdinand FochSourced
- The most precious reputation is the one you have with yourself.
- The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
- The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.