Quotes About What Makes You Who You Are

#1. Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Helen Mirren

#2. The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.

Mat McNerney

#3. Its true it's considered important to be attractive and giving and intelligent and popular, but it is even more important to let all this go to give others a chance. Because that's what makes you who you are, that's what makes you 'beautiful'.

Kanika Bankhad

#4. Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

DeVon Franklin

#5. Very
dangerous ... much like kisses from those who walk among the gods. Intoxicating, sweet, and deadly ... you need to know how to handle it right. Just a little and you'l be fine.
Too much ... it takes away what makes you who you are.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

Tana French

#7. If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Carol Vorderman

#8. You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

Julie Mehretu

#9. The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

John Lasseter

#10. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.

Jessica Brody

#11. What you wear don't make who you are but your self esteem makes what you wear royal

Akubuiro Chidera

#12. What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. 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

#14. Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.

Davina Veronica

#15. You are closer to victory than you know, when you feel you just can't go on any longer. It is what makes champions who they are, the ability to muster up a little bit more when everyone else would give in. It is at that moment a tipping point usually occurs.

JohnA Passaro

#16. What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Tristan Wilds

#17. Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense - You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the "what is it?" moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are.

Ann Voskamp

#18. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

#19. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. - HOWARD THURMAN

Christopher Gergen

#21. I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

Jeff Garlin

#22. It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it ... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.

Derrick Jensen

#23. Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. "I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?"

Archer shook his head.

"What you do makes you who you are....

Traci Chee

#24. When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

Christopher Paolini

#25. I want to know who you are, Tristan. I want to know where you go when you get lost in your mind. I want to know what makes you shout in your dreams. I want to see the darkness in you that you fight daily to keep hidden.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#26. I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

Jonah Hill

#27. When you face the challenges of this world, be they real or what you claim to be imaginary, then face them with your heart. For everyone who loves you is in your heart. From within your heart comes the magic that makes you who you are.

Gillian Summers

#28. Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you.

Ellen J. Barrier

#29. In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention.

Seth Godin

#30. 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

#31. You shall learn that reality is a cover, that imagination is our true essence. That a blur is more beautiful than what it hides, that scrutiny is a curse and that those who enjoy it are more miserable than how much happier it makes them think they become!

Ibraheem Hamdi

#32. I have no idea what you are doing...who you really are, but there's something about you that makes me think you are good for me." ~Raina

Sarah Brocious

#33. So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?"
Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

Patrick Ness

#34. Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!
Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.
Calvin: Oh.

Bill Watterson

#35. Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#36. What is perceived as normal. That makes it other people's failings. Deficits. Not yours. Who the hell sets the standards, huh? Who gets to say how we are supposed to be? Or who we are supposed to be? And how dare anyone make you feel inadequate for being who you are? It's not okay. It pisses me off.

Jessica Park

#37. Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

John Waters

#38. And what makes me happy now has changed as well ... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

Rick Derringer

#39. There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

Tadanobu Asano

#40. My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

Julian Castro

#41. You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Jennifer Aniston

#42. I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

Ray Winstone

#43. Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.

Archibald Marwizi

#44. It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

Victoria Woodhull

#45. I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

Rob Thomas

#46. Don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect.

Machine Gun Kelly

#47. Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

Dan Groat

#48. Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.

Robert Scoble

#49. My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.

Billy Bob Thornton

#50. What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Jeanette Winterson

#51. Be careful what you feed your body and consider what you feed your senses. Both provide you sustenance that makes you who you are.

Simon Boylan

#52. Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

Michael Marshall Smith

#53. 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

#54. What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.

Buddhaghosa

#55. There are two secrets to a successful marriage. The first is having a husband who makes you laugh. The second is never telling your husband what you're laughing at.

John Hartnett

#56. The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

Sydney J. Harris

#57. In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

John Green

#58. Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together.

Debasish Mridha

#59. 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

#60. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Dale Carnegie

#61. What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Jinkx Monsoon

#62. In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Marla Gibbs

#63. Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

Theodore Roosevelt

#64. It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#65. It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.

Holly Black

#66. Are you afraid of getting hurt?" I asked.
"I'm scared of what's ahead for the person who will...he'll live for a time without my presence. It makes me think... Will I be able to endure just watching over him from wherever I'll be going?

Jessamine Verzosa

#67. My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

Michelle Obama

#68. What are you looking at?"
"A beautiful woman who makes me think I can fly.

Elle Casey

#69. A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.

"That's what makes a good leader.

Patience Johnson

#70. It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Zig Ziglar

#71. 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

#72. There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

Seth MacFarlane

#73. Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names ... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong ... I mean, who shot the drapes?

Colin Mochrie

#74. Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.

Alexia Fast

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

Christopher Herz

#76. You are beautiful, not only because of your beauty, because of who you are.

Debasish Mridha

#77. Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

Joseph Kosinski

#78. There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Lovell

#79. The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. - Bobby Goodspeed

James Howe

#80. What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

Colbie Caillat

#81. There were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently kind, candid, and vulnerable - with unsettling reminders, though, that their ability to flip from one to the other is what ultimately makes them deadly.

Andre Aciman

#82. Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

Josh Trank

#83. 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

#84. Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

Jesy Nelson

#85. 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

#86. You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Joe Dante

#87. 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

#88. This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in.

Nick Hornby

#89. The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Frank Shorter

#90. Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

CM Punk

#91. It's not what you do that makes who you are; it's what you eat.

Charlotte Ellis

#92. When you love, you open yourself up to numerous vulnerabilities and worries and responsibilities you never imagined existed because suddenly there's someone else in the world who's more important to you than you are. That's what makes it so tough.

Linda Kage

#93. What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women - organized women - do is to fret about his shirt?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#94. Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

Jamie Cullum

#95. Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.

John Eldredge

#96. 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

#97. As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

#98. We all live, we all die but it's who you are, what you do makes your soul eternal

Isha Sharma

#99. A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

H.L. Mencken

#100. No matter what line of work you do, success cannot truly be achieved until you own who you are. The most offensive liability then becomes an asset. It makes you perform your best, regardless of the challenges you might face.

Ron Perlman