Top 200 Identity Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? You are not the mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

152. “Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”

— Bruce Lee

153. “You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are.”

— Les Brown

154. “It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”

— Brian Tracy

155. “Don’t live your life to please other people.”

— Oprah Winfrey

156. “It’s a lie to think you’re not good enough. It’s a lie to think you’re not worth anything.”

— Nick Vujicic

157. “Your world will follow your idea about yourself.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

158. “You were born original. Don’t die a copy.”

— Ben Mikaelsen

159. “We are constantly invited to be who we are.”

— Henry David Thoreau

160. “You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

161. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

162. “I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

163. “If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

164. “If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

— Joe Dispenza

165. “Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”

— Jay-Z

166. “Be yourself is all that you can do.”

— Chris Cornell

167. “We read books to find out who we are.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

168. “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

— Thomas Merton

169. “I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

170. “I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.”

— Demi Lovato

171. “Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”

— Thomas Merton

172. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent van Gogh

173. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

— Rumi

174. “The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

175. “Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”

— Ramana Maharshi

176. “Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

— C.G. Jung

177. “Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?”

— Soren Kierkegaard

178. “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”

— Bob Dylan

179. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

180. “Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage – in every thought and deed.”

— Russell M. Nelson

181. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”

— Melissa Etheridge

182. “Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.”

— Kanye West

183. “What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

184. “I’m gay, and I was born this way.”

— Cat Cora

185. “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

— Frida Kahlo

186. “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.”

— Myles Munroe

187. “There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it’s enough.”

— Richard Rohr

188. “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”

— Louise Hay

189. “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

— Marianne Williamson

190. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.”

— C.G. Jung

191. “Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

192. “Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.”

— Scott Stabile

193. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

194. “Be proud of who you are.”

— Demi Lovato

195. “I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.”

— Anthony de Mello

196. “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”

— James Clear

197. “The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”

— Ramana Maharshi

198. “You have to take me for me. I am who I am.”

— Harry Styles

199. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

200. “I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.”

— Franz Kafka