41 Most Inspiring Identity Quotes To Be Who You Are

“A dreamer is one who can find his way only by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are … and making peace with it.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.” ― Gerard Manley Hopkins

“When you start living for someone, you lose your identity.” ― Amit Jupi

“The reward for conformity is that everybody likes you except yourself.” ― Rita Mae Brown

“If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.” ― Helmut Lang

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” ― Epictetus

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ― Dr. Seuss

“Don’t let your struggle become your identity. Overcome it fast.” ― Ralston Bowles

“Struggling is not the identity. You must learn to live while you struggle, such that anyone who sees you can separate the struggle from your life.” ― Unknown

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ― Harper Lee

“Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.” ― Robert Brault

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” ― B. R. Ambedkar

“I don’t cover my face because I want to show my identity.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” ― William Shakespeare

“Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go.” ― Doug Cooper

“Never spend time with people who don’t respect you.” ― Maori

“It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.” ― Don Delillo

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Guide

“Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” ― Jay Z

“Memories are the architecture of our identity.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.” ― James Baldwin

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life – Bran” Patricia Briggs

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ― Harper Lee

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” ― George RR Martin

“Don’t let the noise of others? opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ― Steve Jobs

“The value of identity of course is so often with it comes purpose.” ― Richard Grant

“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ― Orson Scott Card

“Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.” ― Erich Fromm

“The identity of one changes with how one perceives reality.” ― Vithu Jeyaloganathan

“I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.” ― Delta Goodrem

“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ― Orson Scott Card

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ― JM Barrie

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ― Dr Seuss

“You can’t change who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn’t.” ― Rob Thurman

“Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.” ― Roger Zelazny

“Our identity has already been chosen for us’ but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.” ― Afnan Ahmad Mia

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” ― José Saramago

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