Quotes in the category identity

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

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Orson Scott Card

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Ralph Ellison

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Coco Chanel

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Patrick Rothfuss

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein