Top 100 Quotes About Knowing Who You Are
#1. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
David Levithan
#3. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.
Robin S. Sharma
#4. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
Cora Carmack
#5. Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.
Jodi Picoult
#6. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Orson Welles
#7. There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment.
Margaux Bergen
#8. You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
Jenifer Lewis
#9. When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.
Vimala Thakar
#10. Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)
Geneen Roth
#11. I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
Donald Miller
#12. Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.
Paula McLain
#13. Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.
Beyonce Knowles
#14. [I]t is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#16. Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.
Mila Kunis
#17. I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.
Ellen DeGeneres
#18. Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.
Nina Garcia
#19. I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.
Lisa Genova
#20. I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.
Jenna Fischer
#21. There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
Natalie Goldberg
#22. I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
Charlotte Eriksson
#24. True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.
Rita Ora
#25. Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.
Wayne Dyer
#26. Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.
Judith Hill
#27. They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Naomi Judd
#28. Half of knowing who you are is knowing who you are not. Don't allow people mould you to what they have in mind.
Patience Johnson
#29. Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality
Giorgio Armani
#30. Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.
Kelly Thompson
#32. I don't want to die and come back and not remember your face, Will. I don't want to spend another lifetime not knowing who you are!
Courtney Allison Moulton
#33. Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God.
Euginia Herlihy
#34. Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.
Christina Engela
#35. Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.
Ann M. Fudge
#36. The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like.
Cameron Jace
#38. Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.
Doug Stewart
#39. A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.
James McBride
#40. Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
Yanni
#41. I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
Rob Lowe
#42. Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
Flannery O'Connor
#43. Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
John Bradshaw
#44. My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.
Pink
#45. Knowing why you are is your purpose.
Knowing who you are is your style.
Knowing what you are is your character
Debasish Mridha
#46. I think self-confidence doesn't come so much from knowing you're great as just knowing who you are.
Penelope Trunk
#47. Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.
Christina Engela
#48. I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.
William H Gass
#49. Style ... is knowing who you are ...
Gore Vidal
#50. Branding is nothing but knowing who you are and what you do that makes you stand out from everyone else, then communicating that through your marketing efforts. Branding is discovering your uniqueness and learning to exploit it.
Larry Winget
#51. Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#52. It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#53. Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
Ken Blanchard
#54. In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
Michael Ray
#56. If you mean to unhinge me, young Jhonis, you will need to be more convincing. Allow me to demonstrate. You are a surface-crawling, poisonless bug who means to frighten a wolf. For I will trample you beneath my toe without ever knowing you existed.
Quoleena Sbrocca
#57. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#58. 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
#59. She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn't know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don't know and you don't know you know and you don't know you don't know. She may not know what she does know.
Thomm Quackenbush
#60. In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#62. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.
Alistair Begg
#64. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
Paul Butcher
#65. Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.
Cynthia Lord
#66. It's absolutely necessary to know who you are, as the basis for knowing anything else.
M.R. Carey
#67. The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
Joseph Campbell
#68. If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.
Julia Woodman
#69. You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.
Bryant McGill
#70. Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#71. Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.
Kid Rock
#72. But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you
knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.
Ayn Rand
#73. Our Freedoms come from those that keep our beliefs, our ideology, and lifestyle safe. You may never know who they are but salute their presence. Their only glory is knowing we recognize their efforts even if they are but ghosts.
Hunter Blacke
#74. Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Steve Maraboli
#75. You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
Dave Gahan
#76. The moment is not over when you have found the right fit in your style. Begin with knowing who you really are and apologize for nothing. There are no mistakes when it comes to personal expression.
Steven Cuoco
#77. Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.
Sophie Kinsella
#78. Never let anyone tell you your worth. It is not that you are worthless, it is them who is incapable of knowing it.
Namrata
#79. When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.
Carolyn Hax
#80. Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.
David Brin
#81. Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
Richard LaGravenese
#84. You on the floor in a fugue state, me not knowing what to do. It's remarkable how high-functioning you are, for an insane person. I'm the only one who gets to see you on the floor.
Jonathan Franzen
#85. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
'I am bored.' Who knows this?
'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this?
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
Erich Fromm
#89. A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.
Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble
#90. When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
Gabrielle Roth
#91. Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yourself.
Julie-Anne
#93. Recognizing someone as a part of you before they've even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who are you in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.
Emily Henry
#94. An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!
Mandy Hale
#95. Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad. You can't tell anything about a person when things are great. If you want to really know someone, be there when everything goes to hell.
Eileen Cook
#96. Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become
Sunday Adelaja
#97. God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
Meister Eckhart
#98. When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.
Deepak Chopra
#99. You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
Haruki Murakami
#100. Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.
Susan Estrich
