Top 100 Quotes About What We Are
#1. I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.
Tariq Ramadan
#2. My generation is the first to be in charge of their image. We call the shots and tell you how to feel about our lives. It doesn't matter if what we are projecting is phony. If someone believes it, that makes it true.
Ryan O'Connell
#3. What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change
Nikhil Kushwaha
#4. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.
William J. Clinton
#5. If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Blaise Pascal
#6. Decisions and events from the past make us what we are today. Moving on doesn't mean getting rid of the past- but instead, accepting it.
Sadaf Zulfikar
#7. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. Still, I wonder sometimes what we are asking when we ask if findings apply elsewhere...Maybe what we are really asking when we ask if a study is "generalizable"is: Can it really be this bad everywhere? Or maybe we're asking: Do I really have to pay attention to this problem?
Matthew Desmond
#9. If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it ...
Benjamin Franklin
#10. With self-awareness we can change our inner conversation about what we are feeling and create different outcomes in conversations with others. To create conversations for change we must be able to process ourselves and others through emotions.
Shawn Kent Hayashi
#11. No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
John Fowles
#12. The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.
Peter Senge
#14. We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#15. We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#16. Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.
Marcus Garvey
#18. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.
Lujan Matus
#20. People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
Charles Dickens
#21. 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
#22. We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.
Marijane Meaker
#23. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants
Eric & Leslie Ludy
#24. The problem is not in what the devil is doing, but in what we are doing about it
Sunday Adelaja
#25. We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
Joyce Meyer
#26. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow. Cora
Margaret Atwood
#27. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Eli Siegel
#28. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
Liane Moriarty
#29. If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.
Isaac Newton
#30. Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max DePree
#32. What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.
David Suzuki
#33. Mojo" is, "That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside
Marshall Goldsmith
#34. We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.
Steve Hagen
#35. There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences.
Chris Matakas
#36. Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#37. What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.
Alan Redpath
#38. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.
Rebecca Solnit
#39. For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Arthur Capper
#40. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#41. We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
Swami Vivekananda
#42. Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
Alain De Botton
#43. We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.
Michael Neill
#44. Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#45. A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.
Jill Talbot
#46. I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part.
The hold of a ship. Hollow.
Margaret Atwood
#47. We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been
Alastair Reynolds
#48. If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
Collin H. Woodward
#50. The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do ... is dependent ... on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.
James Redfield
#51. Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,
and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.
Jay Woodman
#52. The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Learned Hand
#53. The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
Richard Dawkins
#54. Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. Some might guess, but that doesn't mean their opinions are correct.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#55. Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.
Linda Dillow
#57. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Mahmoud Darwish
#60. What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.
Merrit Malloy
#61. We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.
David McCullough
#62. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.
Hillary Clinton
#63. What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
Pim Fortuyn
#65. This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
Michel Hazanavicius
#66. Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.
Mary Midgley
#67. The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
Zhuangzi
#68. By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
Michael Moorcock
#69. What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Frederick Lenz
#70. The present is the best time to do what we are supposed to do because today will be our tomorrow's yesterday.
Kcat Yarza
#71. You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
#72. Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.
Michael Meade
#73. We are what we are, and life is what it is, but God is bigger than any cross we bear
Kate Wicker
#74. The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
#75. The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we are
selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#76. I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#77. The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Louis Kronenberger
#78. The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.
John Owen
#79. Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.
Deepak Chopra
#80. We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
Thomas Mann
#81. The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Helen Dunmore
#83. I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
M. F. Husain
#84. President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.
Tom Vilsack
#85. We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
Charles F. Haanel
#86. Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
#87. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.
Ally Condie
#88. Unconditional Love is our birthright, not judgment or condemnation, and there's nothing we need to do to earn it. This is simply who and what we are.
Anita Moorjani
#90. 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
#93. What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.
Robert Greene
#94. We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#96. We are perfectly designed to achieve what we are currently achieving. If Christianity is in decline, at least part of the issue goes to the contemporary way we live out faith in a watching world.
Alan Hirsch
#97. They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason ... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!
Jaeda DeWalt
#98. Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#99. As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.
Martin Parr
#100. Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
David Brooks
