Top 100 I Am Because Quotes
#1. I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.
Jenji Kohan
#2. Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.
Tim Tebow
#4. Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#5. I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
Anne Bancroft
#6. Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
Marquis De Sade
#7. I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.
Oprah Winfrey
#8. God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.
Brennan Manning
#9. Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have ...
John Powell
#10. I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great.
Stephen Amell
#12. Well, you'd better hope I am because the world was built by sociopaths, men willing to send a million innocent boys into battle to be chopped to screaming giblets, all so a banner can be raised over another piece of land with houses and markets and roads soon after.
David Wong
#13. I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up ...
Kurt Warner
#14. I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
And, my darling, you will always be mine.
Nicholas Sparks
#15. So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.
Greg Behrendt
#16. You are asking me: "Why am I scared to accept myself the way I am?" Because you have not been accepted by anyone the way you are. They have created the fear and the apprehension that if you accept yourself you will be rejected by everybody. This
Osho
#17. When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.
Misty Copeland
#18. I'm the way I am because this is how God made me - God and my own father - and that is how I will die.
Kelly Gardiner
#19. Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.
Melissa Benoist
#20. To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
Eric Liu
#21. It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me 'sir.' Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.
John Van Epp
#22. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are.
Desmond Tutu
#23. I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
Satchel Paige
#24. You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things - guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.
Jennifer Niven
#25. The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
Carrot Top
#27. I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
Nicholas Sparks
#29. I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#31. It is an intensely beautiful world. More and more, I think of it as Cicely's world. More and more I wish it were my world, too. A minute ago, I hoped I wasn't bonding, but now, I almost hope I am. Because its either that or I'm falling in love.
Laura Bradley Rede
#32. It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda
#33. You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.
Celine Dion
#34. I can create my imagination coz i am because Artist.!
Manish Suthar
#35. I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.
Susan Sontag
#36. I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me.
Erich Fromm
#37. I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
Saladin
#38. I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
Gary Shteyngart
#39. I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family
Drew Barrymore
#40. Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
John Geddes
#41. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
#42. If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.
Yasmina Reza
#43. Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M.J. Rose
#44. I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I ... because ... ugh!
Jean-Paul Sartre
#46. I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
Nastia Liukin
#47. I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.
Edmond Rostand
#48. I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
Whoopi Goldberg
#49. I am because WE are and, since we are, therefore I am.
John S. Mbiti
#50. And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be.
Pablo Neruda
#51. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#52. I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
Angelique Kidjo
#53. I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.
Ashley Tisdale
#54. There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
Clarence Thomas
#55. People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
Nathan Lane
#56. What I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
Susan Sontag
#57. I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.
Kyan Douglas
#58. It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
#59. I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
Sara Gilbert
#60. We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
Aimee Mullins
#61. I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.
Lisa Marie Presley
#62. Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.
Lindsay Lohan
#63. I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren't willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.
Dan Pearce
#64. It's in the past. I can't control what they did, only how I react to it. I'm not going to change who I am because of what some jack offs think of me.
Magan Vernon
#65. And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.
Karen Hesse
#66. I am what I am because I have made myself so.
Obert Skye
#67. I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
Maisie Williams
#69. We humans must confess, 'I am because he is.' Only God can say, 'I AM WHO I AM'.
Jen Wilkin
#70. If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.
Thia Megia
#71. I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band
John Mayer
#72. When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because when it comes to poetry, I let it all spill forth. Any other way of writing prose would be a disservice to the art of poetry.
Nicholas Trandahl
#73. You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.
Mark McGrath
#74. People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.
Estelle Getty
#75. People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
Ken Venturi
#76. I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
Mae Whitman
#77. I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.
Paula Poundstone
#78. I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
Edward Snowden
#79. You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.
T. B. Joshua
#80. I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
Guy Ritchie
#81. I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Michael Zaslow
#82. A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
#83. It is not important WHO I am. It is important WHERE I am because that makes me WHAT I am.
Amit Abraham
#84. Stop acting like you know who I am because you don't. I didn't even know who I was until a few weeks ago.
Evelyn Smith
#85. In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am ... because ... you know ... I don't really want to change it.
Taylor Swift
#86. If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
#87. I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
Steve Maraboli
#88. I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.
Madonna
#89. Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not
Amit Abraham
#90. Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.
Robert Smith
#91. I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.
Steve Grand
#92. She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am.
Melina Marchetta
#93. If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.
Guy Maddin
#94. People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God." I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.
Robert Plant
#95. Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
#96. I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.
Masha Tupitsyn
#97. I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
Sun Myung Moon
#98. I Know an easier way to fix though,
Oh Yeah? I am all ears, because it's giving me a fit.
Trade it for a chevy
Amy Clipston
#99. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
Thelma Houston
#100. All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way.
Catherine Of Siena
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