Top 87 Makes Us Who We Are Quotes
#1. Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.
David Gemmell
#2. Because it's our choices that makes us who we are ...
Jeff Kinney
#3. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#4. One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.
Robert Winston
#5. All your mistakes, all your scars, everything you've done wrong, that's what makes us who we are.
Christopher Herz
#6. Those are the things that define us. The way we love the people around us, and the choices we make to show it. That's what makes us who we are.
Rebecca Serle
#7. Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
Joanne Harris
#8. It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do ...
Jane Austen
#9. We all choose our way of life, and that makes us who we are. We're not a reflection of our choice, we're a choice.
Sarvesh Jain
#10. That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.
Kat Howard
#11. It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen
Kim Harrison
#12. 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.
Emily Giffin
#13. What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.
Ken Robinson
#14. The Inner Self
... What makes us who we are
should be glorified
personified
and sung unto the stars!
Muse
#15. But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.
Anna McPartlin
#16. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
Aleksandra Layland
#17. There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It's called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion
Ruben Papian
#18. Our memories, those precious moments that shape our lives and makes us who we are. Our friends, our families, and all the special things we hold close to our hearts. Those are the things that can never be replaced
Virginia McKevitt
#19. The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
Megan McCafferty
#20. To ask whether it's nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It's the intricate interaction between the two that makes us who we are.
Susan Cain
#21. People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
Nadia Giosia
#22. Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.
Hope Solo
#23. The thing that makes us who we are, that goes with us from life to life, it never changes. We always know the people that have surrounded us deep down, whether they are meant to be in our lives at that moment of time or not.
Donna Augustine
#24. What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#25. Knowledge is what shapes us, little brothers," he told them, for once his smile was absent, his tone entirely serious. "It makes us who we are. What we know informs everything we do and every decision we make.
Anthony Ryan
#26. What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.
Jon Heder
#27. In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.
Melissa McPhail
#28. Do not compare yourself with others. Its our uniqueness that makes us who we are.
Tina J. Richardson
#29. Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.
Connie Zweig
#30. I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.
Solange Knowles
#31. To everyone who's ever second-guessed a decision they've made, our past makes us who we are. Have no regrets.
Karyn Bosnak
#32. How we survive, is what makes us who we are.
Tim McIlrath
#33. It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.
Taylor Schilling
#34. It's not blood that makes us who we are," Dad said. "It's family. And it's not blood that makes us family. It's love.
Rose Christo
#35. It's not what happens, it's how we handle what happens, that makes us who we are.
Carol Taylor
#36. You know, everyone has a past. Sometimes, it's what makes us who we are, but sometimes, it lets us know who we don't ever want to be. I'm not sure what your past has been like, but I do know it doesn't have to be your future.
L. Wilder
#37. The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
Alain De Botton
#38. A tragedy is a tragedy, no matter what, but I've learned that it doesn't define who we are and it doesn't weaken us. It makes us stronger.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#39. Normal is anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
Paulo Coelho
#40. Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
John Lancaster Spalding
#41. Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
David Goggins
#43. Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen
#44. we are the kind of people who "don't do vulnerability," there's nothing that makes us feel more threatened and more incited to attack and shame people than to see someone daring greatly.
Brene Brown
#45. Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.
Marcia Preston
#46. Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#47. Isn't that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it's terrifying?
Lisa Renee Jones
#48. Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.
Mo Abudu
#49. I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
Angelina Jolie
#50. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain
Nikhil Kushwaha
#51. To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what our
subsequent needs are.
Aletheia Luna
#52. I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
Saint Ignatius
#53. I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?
Nina George
#54. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.
Gena Showalter
#55. 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.
Ellen DeGeneres
#56. We don't need wings to be angels
We don't need reasons to be right
Your love makes us all better
That who we really are
Angels and heroes at heart
Brian Littrell
#57. Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?
Bryan Kest
#58. The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
Helene Cixous
#59. Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.
Debasish Mridha
#60. What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us.
Joshua Prager
#61. Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)
Stephan A. Hoeller
#62. Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality
all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.
Nelson Mandela
#63. What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#64. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
Gladys Taber
#65. Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger
#66. But we all make mistakes.
It's how we fix them that makes us who we
are.
Jessica Sorensen
#67. If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#68. He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.
Alice Hoffman
#69. Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.
Nancy J Cavanaugh
#70. The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
Douglas Coupland
#72. What we have, what we go through - defines us. Makes us. Changes us, whether for better or worse, it crafts who we are.
Ronie Kendig
#73. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.
V.C. Andrews
#74. Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other".
- Abdulazeez Henry Musa.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#75. Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.
Nick Gordon
#76. The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?
Shane Claiborne
#77. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
Riz Ahmed
#78. Change becomes a waste for those who do not desire to learn from it. It pushes us to bring out our personal best. It makes us realize that we are uniquely different with the capabilities to grow and shine brightly.
Kcat Yarza
#79. The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
Bo Burnham
#80. A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
John C. Maxwell
#81. It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
Chinua Achebe
#82. Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
Michael Howard
#83. But let us imagine RIGHT NOW that we find out about a world where there are artists who paint without brushes, make music without instruments, and write without pen and paper. The very thought makes me happy. That this world could be ours, right here and now.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#84. Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)
Andrew Westoll
#85. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. - 2 Corinthians 3:18
Gary Chapman
#86. It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
Douglas Coupland
#87. GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.
John Wayne Gacy
