Who We Are Quotations | Page 3

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

What makes most of us who we are, most of all, is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

We don't have to apologize for who we are

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.

Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

We are who we are because of who we were

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning...

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Our lives teach us who we are.

To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

The things we love tell us who we are.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.