20 Inspiring Quotes on Identity

Credntia
3 min readOct 28, 2015

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  1. 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
  2. “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
  3. “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
  4. “In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”-Erik Erikson
  5. “I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.”-Delta Goodrem
  6. “I don’t cover my face because I want to show my identity.”-Malala Yousafzai
  7. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”-Oscar Wilde
  8. “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
  9. “So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”-Steven Chbosky
  10. “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”-Virginia Woolf
  11. “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
  12. “Memories are the architecture of our identity.”
  13. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”-Epictetus
  14. “Identity cannot be found or fabricated but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go.”-Doug Cooper
  15. “The value of identity of course is so often with it comes purpose.”-Richard Grant
  16. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”-George Bernard Shaw
  17. “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
  18. Every scar I have makes me who I am.
  19. “Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.”-Robert Brault
  20. “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

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