Top 200 Identity Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Judy Garland

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Osho

Also featured in: Philosophy Quotes, Ego Quotes

4. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

5. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Choices Quotes, Growth Quotes, Being Yourself 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

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

— Deepak Chopra

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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

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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

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

— Brené Brown

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13. “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, Acceptance 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

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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: Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Different Quotes, Individuality Quotes

16. “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

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17. “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, Acceptance Quotes, Grace Quotes

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

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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

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

— Audre Lorde

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

— James Baldwin

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: Mind 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

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Tobias Wolff

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

29. “I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

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

— Rick Warren

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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, Fiction Quotes, Personality Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Soul Quotes

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, Quotes About Humanity, Appreciation Quotes

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Bruce Lee

37. “Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Personality Quotes, Individuality Quotes

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

— Alan Watts

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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

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

— C.G. Jung

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41. “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, Quotes About Dreams, Choices Quotes, Greatness Quotes

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Quotes About People, Quotes About the World

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

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: Self-Esteem Quotes, Strong Quotes, Individuality 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: Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People, Respect Quotes

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

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Quotes About People

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, Artist Quotes, Individuality 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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