Top 100 Quotes About Who You Were
#1. You don't have to be who you are, if you don't like it. No matter what, you can be who you were meant to be.
Daniel Vlcek
#2. I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.
Dave Pelzer
#3. Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.
D. Ivan Young
#4. Don't die before you're dead. And if you do, let it be the good kind...when the only part of you that dies is who you were supposed to be.
Scott Stambach
#5. Because maybe home wasn't a location. Maybe it's simply the people who you were surrounded with that made you feel as if you could be whoever you wanted to be. Maybe home was friendship.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#6. '21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.
Brooke Astor
#7. On one end there was who you were before you went underground, and on the other end a new person steps out into the light.
Colson Whitehead
#8. A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.
Christopher Pike
#9. Rylie," he said gently. "I love you. I've loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I'm gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.
J.B. Hartnett
#11. Once you recognize the power you possess, and the gifts and talents that have been bestowed upon you, you will be well on your way to becoming who you were created to be and living a life full of rewards and purpose.
Dwaun S. Cox
#12. Sam." I felt like I was choking. Or drowning. Maybe some of both. He stopped walking, at any rate. "You asked how I'd know who you were."
Silence.
"I'll always know.
Jodi Meadows
#13. It didn't matter who you were, it only mattered what you were. I was wrong, and soon I believe you're going to see you're wrong too. It isn't about what kind of monster you are; it isn't about whether or not you're a monster at all. It's about who you are and what you represent.
M.R. Merrick
#14. So, in the end, who you were doesn't seem to matter. It's who you are that does. And this change was for the best of us.
Unknown
#15. Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Paul Coelho
#16. You realize that if he doesn't know who you are, he won't be able to remember who you were.
Melissa Bank
#17. Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.
David Levithan
#19. Even before I knew who you were, Aelin, I knew that what you were working toward . . . It was worth it."
"What is?" Her throat tightened.
"A world where people like me don't have to hide.
Sarah J. Maas
#20. I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.
Erin Morgenstern
#21. Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.
Danielle LaPorte
#22. Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
Terry Goodkind
#23. Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God - a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image.
Praying Medic
#24. The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life - to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.
Atul Gawande
#25. To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
Frederick Buechner
#26. If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#27. [ ... ][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.
Anne Bishop
#28. I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.
Nenia Campbell
#29. You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
Mary Schmich
#30. Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have.
Condoleezza Rice
#31. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only thing that can.
A.G. Howard
#32. You found you were saying yes when you meant no, and "We've got to be together in this thing" when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didn't know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?
Richard Yates
#33. It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered
Robin Roe
#35. You can't change the past, you know? You can't change who you were, but you can change who you're going to be.
Rose Christo
#36. Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.
Harry Wong
#37. Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
A.G. Howard
#38. People fall in and out of love all the time, and sometimes people have numerous loves throughout their lives. But you have two epic loves and no matter who you were with, I don't think you'd ever get over or forget the other.
Molly McAdams
#39. When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
Bob Dole
#40. The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.
Donald Miller
#41. Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.
Stephen Richards
#42. I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.
Ellen Schreiber
#43. Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday and dream of who you can be tomorrow ...
Neale Donald Walsch
#44. To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.
Gary Younge
#45. He changed us both." She seemed to struggle for words. "I think of you, all that you lost, who you were, what you were forced to be, and might have been, and I - I have become this, this person, unable to - "
She shut her mouth.
"Kestrel," he said softly, "I love this person.
Marie Rutkoski
#46. One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.
Hugh Hefner
#47. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
Sebastian Faulks
#49. He's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.
Gillian Flynn
#51. There was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.
Jojo Moyes
#52. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... the future is roses! Roses!
Thomas Dolby
#53. It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
George Eliot
#54. Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first thing about it.
Kathleen Winter
#56. Without you, I'm lost, fumbling and falling
Missing so much of who you were
If I could change the past, I'd take it all back
I'd turn back time, I'd take away the pain
I'd make sure I didn't leave without you
Monica Alexander
#57. True meditation is a state of profound and deep peace that comes when the mind is calm and silent, yet totally alert. True meditation takes you to a higher state of awareness and enables you to fulfill who you were meant to be.
Stewart Osbourne
#59. Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#60. That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.
Toni Morrison
#61. You don't forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be
Jessica Sorensen
#62. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.
Candace Bushnell
#63. I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.-
Oprah Winfrey
#64. Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!
Denis Waitley
#65. Barbecue brings people together, it always did and always will. Even in the sixties, during the race movements, barbecue was one of the things that held down the tensions. At a barbecue, it didn't matter who you were.
Michael Pollan
#66. If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?
Mark Cuban
#67. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.
Maya Angelou
#68. Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.
Bob Goff
#69. There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.
Kristin Kimball
#70. It's not who you were, It's who you've become that matters
Jeff Radford
#71. You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.
Robert Jordan
#72. Don't let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.
Morr Meroz
#73. You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.
Christie Golden
#74. The day you begin to accept who you are is when the journey of knowing yourself begins. That day is when validation through others becomes something of the past, and loving you and evolving into who you were made to be will begin.
Pierre Alex Jeanty
#75. The world was bursting with opportunity. If you didn't like who you were, it was time to reinvent yourself and try again. It was a disservice to the universe to cheat everyone of your talents. And
Fran Seen
#76. Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
Kerry Greenwood
#77. Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grown into. She is wiser and stronger than than ever before. Don't go back to who you were. Cherish who you are." --Without a Voice by Chris Pepple
Chris Pepple
#78. I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that's been burned.
Christina Aguilera
#79. S'important to have old friends." Silas wagged a finger. "They remember who you were before you made yourself up.
Damon Suede
#80. Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be.
Ashley N. Sauls
#81. Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.
Carew Papritz
#82. It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
Shelly Crane
#83. Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you recognize who you were. Then. And now. And you have to figure out how to reconcile the two.
Katy Regnery
#84. New Orleans was like that. A live-and-let-live attitude was ingrained into the fabric of the city; no one cared who you were or what you looked like - you had a place, and everyone respected that.
Laura Lane McNeal
#85. The only thing you need to be certain of is that you can be whatever you want yourself to be and this does not need to be defined by who you were.
Brenda J. Bentley
#86. It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.
Justin Cronin
#87. The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out.
J.D. Robb
#88. Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.
David Malouf
#89. Time didn't seem to matter when you didn't know who you were or where you belonged.
Jettie Woodruff
#90. Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
Stacy London
#91. Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.
Carol Orsborn
#92. I'm not sure that it's something that can be fixed. There are things like that, ya know? they can get you and you can't be who you were before. It doesn't matter if it's fixed or not.
H.M. Ward
#93. You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.
Alan Cohen
#94. Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.
Bryant McGill
#95. Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
Kevin Systrom
#96. I know you never met me, and I know you don't know my name, but I am from you, and I just wish you could see me. I wish you could see that someone knows who you were and what you did, and I won't let anybody forget you, not ever again.
Ryan Littrell
#97. Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.
Dwayne Johnson
#98. I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.
-Claude Frollo
Victor Hugo
#99. So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.
Nalo Hopkinson
#100. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time. Not even when we
try to understand the things that happen to us. Close the door, change the record, clean the house. Stop being who you were, become who you are NOW.
Paulo Coelho
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