Top 200 Identity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

102. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

— Sigmund Freud

103. “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

104. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”

— Oprah Winfrey

105. “This is your life, are you who you want to be?”

— Switchfoot

106. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain

107. “If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

108. “I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

— Kwame Nkrumah

109. “What makes you different is what makes you beautiful.”

— Selena Gómez

110. “Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don’t be looking at all the other things. Start with you.”

— Michael Jackson

111. “Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don’t make mistakes.”

— Max Lucado

112. “I exist as I am, that is enough.”

— Walt Whitman

113. “Just be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are.”

— Eminem

114. “Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go Only as deep as I look can I see Only as much as I dream can I be.”

— Karen Ravn

115. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

116. “Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It’s invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.”

— Tony Robbins

117. “Don’t let others define you. Define yourself.”

— Ginni Rometty

118. “My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”

— Anthony Hopkins

119. “What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

120. “A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”

— Maya Angelou

121. “Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.”

— Kellie Elmore

122. “The only journey is the one within.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

123. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

— Muhammad Ali

124. “I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

125. “You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.”

— Denzel Washington

126. “Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

— Sting

127. “Once you label me you negate me.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

128. “Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become.”

— John C. Maxwell

129. “What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.”

— Meryl Streep

130. “You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

131. “Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?”

— Konstantin Stanislavski

132. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others, and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”

— Walt Disney

133. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

134. “You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.”

— Russell T. Davies

135. “No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don’t wait for someone else.”

— Madonna

136. “Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

137. “The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.”

— Ramana Maharshi

138. “There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

— Oscar Wilde

139. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

140. “I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams.”

— Michael Jackson

141. “Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.”

— Brian Tracy

142. “I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am.”

— Demi Lovato

143. “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.”

— Roman Payne

144. “Become who you are. Make what only you can make.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

145. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

146. “I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.”

— Emma Watson

147. “I am that by which I know ‘I am’”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

148. “It’s a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven’t even defined yourself.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

149. “My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.”

— Barack Obama

150. “Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.”

— Jill Biden