Quotes About Finding Who You Are

#1. I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

Nick Jonas

#2. High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.

Nick Jonas

#3. Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Gene Simmons

#4. If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Jake T. Austin

#5. When you're constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.

Michael Soll

#6. I tell him I take anti-depressants, which leads him on a thirty-minute detour. He tells me sadness is a part of finding out who you are. I tell him getting out of bed is also a part of finding out who you are. We agree to disagree.

Hilary Winston

#7. I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

Stormie O'martian

#9. It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.

Shay Carl

#10. In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

Robert Breault

#11. To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel

Gena Showalter

#12. You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.

Kim Wilde

#13. Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.

Chelsea Handler

#14. So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.

Augustine Of Hippo

#15. People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

Jean Chatzky

#16. It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Charleston Parker

#17. I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

Chris Abani

#18. Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Orson Scott Card

#19. If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

Halle Berry

#20. We haven't been introduced'
Finding her voice, she replied 'You know who I am, and I know who you are, and-'
'-that won't serve'. His voice twined with hers, changing the scrip. And in the lapse after their words, she heard him waiting.

Laini Taylor

#21. Bre said there's only one real adventure in this world. Love. It's finding the one person who makes you want to be better than you are.

Anna Katmore

#22. Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

John Bradshaw

#23. You don't think your way into finding out who you are; you live your way into it. You make mistakes. You follow your passion. You take wrong turns. You set goals and chase dreams. You figure out what makes you laugh, and you do more of it. You learn what makes you cry, and you do less of it.

Mandy Hale

#24. We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

Rachel Joyce

#25. One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.

Auliq Ice

#26. It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

Daniel Handler

#27. You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays ... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

Nick Hornby

#28. As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.

Harrison Smith

#29. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.

J.C. Reed

#30. There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

Shirley Jones

#31. When you find something precious, you have to hold on to it with all your might and never let it go, whatever else you may lose. After all, there are lots of people who die without ever finding something that's really precious to them.

Novala Takemoto

#32. Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Robert E. Terwilliger

#33. There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

Henry Ford

#34. The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Susan Sullivan

#35. Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

Henry Cloud

#36. If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing.

C. JoyBell C.

#37. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Hilarie Burton

#38. 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

#39. As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

Guy Kawasaki

#40. You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' ... 'Where am I?' ... 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

Bill W.

#41. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.

Stephen Richards

#42. You're seventeen. You're supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You're supposed to be finding out who you are as a person." "But I already know who I am," Valkyrie said. "I'm a world-breaker.

Derek Landy

#43. How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

Andrea M. Ghez

#44. You know who you are you just have to believe it.

Elizabeth Scott

#45. I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

Christopher Koch

#46. I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

Daniel H. Pink

#47. When I look at you, you know what I see?"
I met her gaze, finding it suddenly hard to breathe.
"I see the guy who saw me when no one else did," she said. "That's what matters to me. That's who you are.

Cindi Madsen

#48. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

Mandy Hale

#49. You hear so many people talk about finding their soul mates only in relation to who they marry, but I think that, as women, our real soul mates are often found when we recognize some version of ourselves in someone else.

Melanie Shankle

#50. You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Diana Wynne Jones

#51. Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

Candace Bushnell

#52. Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.

Charlyne Yi

#53. Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

Sue Bender

#54. There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Rebecca De Mornay

#55. There is a moment when you realise you are not doing what you want to do or being who you want to be. It is at that moment that you become who you really are.

Chloe Thurlow

#56. This is how I show my students that I love them - by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about, and finding books that tell them, I know. I know. I know how it is. I know who you are, and even though we may never speak of it, read this book, and know that I understand you.

Donalyn Miller

#57. Finding your True Self really means being your true self because its who you really are!

James A. Sinclair

#58. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.

Christopher Paolini

#59. The bulk of life is discovering who you are - and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#60. You will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself

Callie

#61. If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

Avi Lewis

#62. The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

Derek Landy

#63. Finding somebody equally mad like you, the one who knows your flaws and chooses to stay is the one you are meant to be with, forever.

Shreya Gupta

#64. There is always something behind what is wrong and to change what is wrong, mind the things behind what is wrong! So many people are quick enough to see what is wrong only, and they criticize so blindly! When you see what is wrong, see why, who and what is behind what is wrong.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#65. You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

Lesley Lokko