Top 66 Quotes About Understanding Who You Are
#1. As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are - and who you are not - is not the most important thing of all Important Things.
David Arnold
#2. Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man's value and behavior
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David Crystal
#4. Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.
Nikki Rowe
#5. Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.
Bonnie Marcus
#6. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each sunset can teach you about yourself, if you listen. If you hear.
Vironika Tugaleva
#10. Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#11. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.
Wynton Marsalis
#12. There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
M.F. Moonzajer
#13. Balance comes from slowing down, from taking deep breaths, from understanding your body and what it needs. It comes from accepting who you are and loving yourself every step of the way.
Rachel Brathen
#14. You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
Paula Scher
#15. Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.
Joan Ryan
#16. 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
#17. And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.
Brian Azzarello
#18. Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.
Sheri Dew
#19. Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.
Cameron Diaz
#20. First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastness of the universe and all of time.
Then realize you are not alone. Look back on your life and see the people who stood by you. There were some. Realize the God of your understanding cares.
Christopher Hawke
#22. You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernadine Dohrn
#23. Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.
Bryant McGill
#24. There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you ... You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
Ernest K. Gann
#25. It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.
Vironika Tugaleva
#26. That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.
Pedro Noguera
#27. It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey
#28. Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
Delta Goodrem
#29. Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't be able to resist.
Red Phoenix
#30. Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.
Christina Engela
#31. You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
Tara Brach
#32. Sometimes figuring out who you are means understanding that we are a mosaic of experiences. I'm Dumplin'. And Will and Willowdean. I'm fat. I'm happy. I'm insecure. I'm bold.
Julie Murphy
#33. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
#34. Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.
Joe Jonas
#35. If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are.
Fennel Hudson
#36. Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.
Rodney Yee
#37. 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
#38. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa
#39. I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.
Karen Allen
#40. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
Alexander McCall Smith
#41. People who stare. I ask for a little empathy. Please don't judge. Be understanding that some places will strongly affect me. My senses are heightened and i experience lights, noise and smells differently that you might. Stimming will help me regulate myself to my environment as well as calming me.
Tina J. Richardson
#43. When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.
Sally Field
#44. As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels help us to develop a deeper understanding of the legacy of women who came before us and the strides made by our ancestors.
Mary Pope Osborne
#45. If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock
#46. Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.
Toks Olagundoye
#47. Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
Ken Danby
#48. Who gives fuck... does one die or one win... both in the end are in the graveyard... as for now I will focus on if you don't understand me probably is for good.
Deyth Banger
#49. Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
Khalil Gibran
#50. What do you care?" Arik Siq asked. "Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are." "Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.
Terry Brooks
#51. It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
Billie Jean King
#52. Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.
Kelly Thompson
#53. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
#54. I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.
Marta
#55. It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
Becky G
#56. LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.
Ken Kesey
#57. The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.
Myles Munroe
#58. [On meditation] ... that's the single most important thing that I do ... there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.
Jennifer Beals
#59. Finally, this book has the potential to radically alter your understanding of who you really are - your high calling as one of the "sons of God.
David C. Alves
#60. Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesn't mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have just been very confused.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#61. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
Helen Keller
#62. When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
Niels Diffrient
#63. If you have ever sat in a focus group in a swing state, you are 100% certain that most soft partisans make up their minds on who to vote for based on things that are totally outside of an understanding of issues.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#65. Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.
Bradley Horowitz
#66. A group of people you know who are in your whitelist or your blacklist can intertwine when you have a deep understanding to adapt to each individual's stereotype and they would all eventually accept of who you are.
Saaif Alam
