Identity
447 quotes: 78 by Keith Craft, 369 from other voices.
Other voices on Identity
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
- The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
- The starting point of building your self-esteem is for you to have a clear sense of who you are and what you want.
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- The things that we love tell us what we are.
- The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.
- The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
- The vulgar estimate themselves by what they do; the noble by what they are.
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.Joan DidionSourced
- The words 'I am' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you!
- The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
- The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
- There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.
- There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
- There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.
- There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
- There is nothing more unreasonable than to estimate our worth by the opinion of others. Today they laud us to the skies, to-morrow they will cover us with ignominy.
- There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.
- There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you
- There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
- They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
- To thine own self be true.
- Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
- To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
- To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
- To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.
- To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
- To say Yes to life is at one and the same time to say Yes to oneself.
- Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.
- Trust Yourself... You know more than you think you do.
- Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
- We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
- We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
- We are not broken, we are just unfinished.