Top 200 Identity Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.”

— Neville Goddard

52. “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

— Malcolm X

53. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

54. “My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”

— Johnny Depp

55. “We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Joan Didion

56. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

57. “The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

58. “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

59. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

— Maya Angelou

60. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

— Marcus Garvey

61. “Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?”

— Tony Robbins

62. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”

— Oprah Winfrey

63. “No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

64. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

— Virginia Woolf

65. “Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”

— Bell Hooks

66. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

— Jim Morrison

67. “Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.”

— Marianne Williamson

68. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

69. “Why am I here? What’s my purpose?”

— Julie Anne Peters

70. “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”

— Pope John Paul II

71. “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

72. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

73. “I know who I am, I know what I believe, that’s all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.”

— Will Smith

74. “The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.”

— Dallas Willard

75. “I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.”

— Deepak Chopra

76. “I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”

— Charles Horton Cooley

77. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”

— Bruce Springsteen

78. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

— Margaret Mead

79. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

— Walt Disney

80. “We are Indians, firstly and lastly.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

81. “You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that’s who you are. If you don’t want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.”

— Will Smith

82. “I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.”

— Louise Hay

83. “Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

84. “The world is me and I am the world.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

85. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

86. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

87. “It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.”

— Rick Warren

88. “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

89. “Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.”

— Jason Mraz

90. “Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

91. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad

92. “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Danielle LaPorte

93. “Beauty begins in the moment you decide to be yourself.”

— Coco Chanel

94. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”

— Brené Brown

95. “Life is real only then, when “I am”.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

96. “Let’s be clear, I’m a strong woman.”

— Bethenny Frankel

97. “I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.”

— Neville Goddard

98. “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

99. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

— Les Brown

100. “The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.”

— Hermann Hesse