Best Identity Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.”

“I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.”

“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”

“I can't give up my own identity.”

“I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.”

“I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.”

“When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.”

“I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.”

“Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.”

“Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.”

“We all need a firm sense of identity.”

“I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.”

“Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.”

“There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.”

“Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.”

“You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.”

“When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.”

“If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don't have to become a vegetarian. It doesn't have to be an identity overhaul.”

“I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.”

“Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes.”

“My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.”

“National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.”

“I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.”

“I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.”

“I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.”

“Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.”

“It is hard to have your own identity when you dad is John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, but I accept and love the fact of who my dad is.”

“I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.”

“We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.”

“It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.”

“My music is about identity.”

“You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.”

“I look at myself and the films that I will be doing, and that films will create my identity.”

“The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.”

“You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.”

“I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.”

“People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.”

“'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'”

“I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.”

“Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.”

“You have to find an identity that's true to yourself. You really have to find your own voice.”

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

“An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.”

“I needed to be myself and find my own identity.”

“In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.”

“Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.”

“There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.”

“I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.”

“Without comprehending the role of identity, many issues we all face will remain unresolved.”

“To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.”

“Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.”

“I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.”

“I want an identity outside of my work.”

“Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.”

“Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.”

“Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.”

“I have no issues with my identity.”

“I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.”

“Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.”

“I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.”

“I don't really look at the world rankings very often, but with that being said, it's nice to be No. 1. It's not something I focus on; it's not something I place my identity in.”

“Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.”

“The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.”

“I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.”

“I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.”

“Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.”

“I'm not a fan of identity politics.”

“If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.”

“Our national identity is so interwoven with football.”

“In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.”

“For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.”

“The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.”

“Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.”

“I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.”

“A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.”

“As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.”

“Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.”

“One doesn't want one's identity coerced.”

“A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.”

“When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.”

“I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.”

“My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.”

“Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.”

“To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.”

“I want to create my own identity.”

“I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.”

“When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.”

“I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.”

“I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes tomorrow, I don't have the proverbial rug under me that can be pulled out. I'm taken care of, and there's someone who loves me.”

“But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.”

“The second that MercyMe stopped being my identity, instead of quitting, I started falling back in love with it.”

“No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.”

“I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.”

“Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.”

“I am that person that struggled with my identity my whole life.”

“I am very thrilled with my newfound identity post 'Metro.'”

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.”

“Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.”

“Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.”

“We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.”