Quotes about Identity
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
— St. Augustine
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
— Tony Evans
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
— Vance Havner
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
— Anais Nin
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
— Barack Obama