Quotes About Our Past Makes Us Who We Are

#1. To everyone who's ever second-guessed a decision they've made, our past makes us who we are. Have no regrets.

Karyn Bosnak

#2. It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Making You Happy; Makes Me Happy.

Dhiren Prajapati

#5. Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

Meaghan Martin

#6. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.

Matana Roberts

#7. The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

Stephen Covey

#8. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#9. Love makes one fitt for any work.

George Herbert

#10. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Wayne Dyer

#11. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

Djuna Barnes

#13. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#14. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.

Seth Godin

#16. I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

Scotty McCreery

#17. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Homer

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#22. If you drink champagne when you are sad it makes you happy. If you drink champagne when you are happy you can taste the stars.

Chloe Thurlow

#23. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#24. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr

#25. The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

Ann Voskamp

#26. What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?

Megan McCafferty

#27. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

Sharon Horgan

#28. Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

Wilder Penfield

#29. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Scott Simon

#30. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."

Madonna Ciccone

#31. The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.

Saint Basil

#32. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Orison Swett Marden

#33. The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Daniel Keys Moran

#34. We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Alan Alda

#35. Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

#36. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates