Exactly Who You Are Quotes

#1. No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you become-" [ ... ] "exactly who you are.

Samuel R. Delany

#2. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.

Don DeLillo

#3. You are exactly where you need to be to become exactly who you are supposed to become.

C. Robert Cargill

#4. Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.

Negash Ali

#5. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!

Iyanla Vanzant

#6. Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

Allan Gurganus

#7. Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Matthew Pearl

#8. Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

Lady Gaga

#9. There is a brief moment when you first wake where you have no memories. An idyllic blank slate. A blissful emptiness. But it doesn't last long. You remember exactly who you are and all the terrible things you've gone through.

J.L. Weil

#10. The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.

Jenna Marbles

#11. Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you're capable, you're loved and you're beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you! You are unique, because there is only ONE of you!

Shantel VanSanten

#12. As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

Meryl Streep

#13. I want you so much right now, Dally. I want to push so far into you that you remember exactly who you are, and who you belong to.

Kate Stewart

#14. True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

Sara Bareilles

#15. But, baby, through that long journey, I've only ever been home twice. Once, twenty years ago and now I'm home again, with you. You. I know exactly who you are. I just have to introduce you to her.

Kristen Ashley

#16. To all those afraid to be the real you, don't be. Someone somewhere loves you for exactly who you are.

Kimberly Bracco

#17. I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

Lady Gaga

#18. I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

Melissa Rosenberg

#19. Even most churches don't really know what to do with their singles. They teach classes on "preparing for marriage," "waiting for marriage," and "praying for marriage," but what about just honoring exactly who you are in this moment instead of always prepping for the next phase of life?

Mandy Hale

#20. Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

Letitia Baldrige

#21. You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else

Kanye West

#22. I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?

Catherine Jinks

#23. Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

Joan Ryan

#24. In an odd way it was comforting to know that people you imagine are oversexed, misogynistic pigs are, in fact, oversexed, misogynistic pigs. It made me realize that sometimes people are exactly who you expect them to be.

Olivia Munn

#25. It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

Lynn Coady

#26. I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

J.J. Abrams

#27. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

#28. The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect ... and so are you!

Wayne Dyer

#29. Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

#30. I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

John Major

#31. If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do

Seth Godin

#32. Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie" - which doesn't include you, Julia - "will understand exactly what we are trying to do from an orbital mechanics standpoint.

Neal Stephenson

#33. Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don't worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it's trying to tell you and you'll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be.

Jay Crownover

#34. I'm not going to turn on you because you are who you are." She'd known exactly who it was she'd invited into her bed and that his sexual experience far outweighed hers. "Especially," she added, fingers curling into the sheet, "when I'm the beneficiary of all that practice.

Nalini Singh

#35. You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#36. How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?

Audre Lorde

#37. Durbin looked from one of them to another, and shook his head. "So what is all this, exactly? Who are you people, the Ghostbusters?"
"Hell, no." Lena clasped Georgia's shoulder while the other woman helped her into a sitting position. "Bill Murray's got nothing on me.

Laura Oliva

#38. If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already ...

Gary Vaynerchuk

#39. When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

George W. Bush

#40. If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were.

Natasha Rendell

#41. The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same ... otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'

Michael Kors

#42. When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

John Lydon

#43. Somewhere out there is someone who wants exactly the kind of person you are, complete with all the flaws and failings you come with.

Richard Templar

#44. The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.

Susan Orlean

#45. Have you even thought that who you are now is exactly the person you're supposed to be? That maybe with the slate wiped clean of bullshit outside influences that you are now more yourself than ever before?

T.M. Frazier

#46. Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that some things are important enough to fight for and realize there will be sacrifices along the way.

Maria V. Snyder

#47. There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

LeBron James

#48. There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

Alafair Burke

#49. A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.

Jarius Raphel

#50. But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

Augusten Burroughs

#51. I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or if you are not exactly sure who you are. It can be hard to believe that someone won't leave.

Ava Dellaira

#52. If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

Rachel Cohn

#54. It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it ... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.

Derrick Jensen

#55. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself

Mona Hanie

#56. In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Diablo Cody

#57. You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.

Jennifer Mclean

#58. There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part ... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Simone Signoret

#59. It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

Laura Donnelly

#60. Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

Bob Goff

#61. Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

Taraji P. Henson

#62. Women are now more aggressive than men! And I don't put them down for it. I think it's great. My attitude with sex with any woman I've ever been with is, I want you to be exactly who you want to be behind closed doors. Don't ever hold back with me.

Andrew Dice Clay

#63. For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

Richard Shepard

#64. Trying so hard to make things go our way in this world, doing so much leaning, is exhausting. I am convinced that is exactly what Jesus had in mind when he said, 'Come to me all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28 NASB).

Van Harden

#65. A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.

Michael Caine

#66. Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.

Maurice Levy

#67. Do not look around at what everyone else is doing. No one is asking you to be someone else. But the world does need you to be you, because you are the only one who can do the job. Be the person God created you to be. He made you exactly right.

Ellyn Sanna

#68. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#69. Age, like numbers on a scale and letters on a report card, tells us very little of who we are. You decide every year exactly how young and how old you want to be.

Shauna Niequist

#70. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

#71. Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

Steve Jobs

#72. His [Donald trump] views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he's trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.

Marco Rubio

#73. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.

Renae A. Sauter

#74. There are plenty of designers around who could advise you on artwork. I'm not the person you want."
"Oh, I suspect you are exactly the person I'm looking for.

B. J. Daniels

#75. You can always somebody who is worse than you are to make you feel virtuous. It's a cheap shot: those awful terrorists, perverts, communists
they are the ones who need to repent! Yes, indeed they do, and for them repentance will be a full-time job, exactly as it is for all the rest of us.

Hugh Nibley

#76. The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

Brian Koslow

#77. People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

Denis Leary

#78. Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.

Douglas Copeland

#79. God knows that you are exactly the right person who can fulfill His desires

Sunday Adelaja

#80. One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

Pablo Casals

#81. The question is not whether I'm sure, but whether you are. Because I know exactly what I want, and I'm not the kind of guy who's afraid to go after it once I see it.

Elle Casey

#82. To be alone, you need to know who exactly you are.

Anonymous

#83. If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#84. You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

Mike Dooley

#85. What are you to do with a boy who never argues with you, but does exactly what he likes and when you get mad at him just says he's sorry and lets you storm?

William Somerset Maugham

#86. The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Diablo Cody