Quotes About What Makes Us Who We Are

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The Inner Self
... What makes us who we are
should be glorified
personified
and sung unto the stars!

Muse

#4. 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

#5. Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

David Gemmell

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. All your mistakes, all your scars, everything you've done wrong, that's what makes us who we are.

Christopher Herz

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. How we survive, is what makes us who we are.

Tim McIlrath

#13. I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.

Solange Knowles

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.

Ken Robinson

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.

Debasish Mridha

#29. What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us.

Joshua Prager

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

Kim Harrison

#34. 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

#35. The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. 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

#37. What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

Jon Heder

#38. 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

#39. What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. It's not what happens, it's how we handle what happens, that makes us who we are.

Carol Taylor

#45. 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

#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