Top 200 Identity Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

2. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

3. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Morality Quotes

4. “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Ego Quotes

5. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes

6. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

7. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Choices Quotes, Growth Quotes

8. “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.”

— E.E. Cummings

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

9. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Transformation Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

10. “The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Soul Quotes

11. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

— Anna Quindlen

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Emotional Quotes

12. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes

13. “When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Emotional Quotes

14. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Be Yourself Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Emotion Quotes

15. “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Affirmation Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Freedom Quotes

16. “You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

17. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Culture Quotes, Quotes About Laughter

18. “Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.”

— Erving Goffman

19. “In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”

— Erik H. Erikson

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

20. “Every decision you make – every decision that you make every second – is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Intention Quotes

21. “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Life Quotes for Women, Women Empowerment Quotes

22. “You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

— James Baldwin

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes

23. “The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Ambition Quotes

24. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

25. “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

26. “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes

27. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”

— Tobias Wolff

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Never Give Up Quotes

28. “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 R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Character Quotes, Individuality Quotes

29. “I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Intelligent Quotes, Truth Quotes, Intelligence Quotes

30. “You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

31. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Personality Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

32. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

33. “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Appreciation Quotes

34. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Inner Peace Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

35. “Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Quotes About People

36. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes

37. “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes

38. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Witty Quotes

39. “Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Taoism Quotes

40. “We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Personality Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes

41. “Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

— William Shakespeare

42. “Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

43. “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Diversity Quotes, Quotes About Children, Rights Quotes

44. “You are the world and the world is you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Deep Quotes, Quotes About People

45. “I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

46. “Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.””

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity

47. “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.”

— Robert M. Hensel

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People, Respect Quotes

48. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

49. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Artist Quotes

50. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

— C.G. Jung

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