What You Are Made Of Quotes

#1. You want to change the world? Now is your chance! Go show this bastard what you are made of!

Wesley Chu

#2. Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!

Deborah A. Beasley

#3. You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

Isabel Gillies

#4. One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

Anne Rouen

#5. I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#6. You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

O.R. Melling

#7. Spending some time alone is a therapy that most of us don't know how to practice. You need a little time alone every now and then to know what you are made of, to know and to do what you really like and to actually like yourself.

Mohamed Ghazi

#8. You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

Christopher Paolini

#9. I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Jill Abramson

#10. When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Leighton Meester

#11. Are you available to travel? What kind of questions were these? Was the second one even allowed in a job interview? Still, she'd answered as best she could and finally read a question that made sense:

Melody Anne

#12. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.

Christina Dodd

#13. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

#14. All Librarians are members of the Catalogue. That's what you call a coven when it's made up of Librarians instead of witches. Librarians have sorted and alphabetized all the magic that ever thought to put a rabbit and a hat together. Who do you think invented Special Collections?

Catherynne M Valente

#15. You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

Boyd K. Packer

#16. Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can see probability.

Peace Gypsy

#17. It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going to.

Carew Papritz

#18. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

#19. What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

Gilbert Sorrentino

#20. If love was only for the perfect, what a sad and lonely world it would it be. We are the culmination of every good and bad choice we've ever made. Your mistakes have made you into an incredibly fierce and loving woman; one I am

Ruth Cardello

#21. Can you lose everything, you ever had planned?
Can you sit down again, and play another hand?
Could you risk everything, for the chance of being alone?
Under pressure find the grace, or would you come undone?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say?

Bryan Adams

#22. Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you will remain, made up of possibilities.

Edouard Leve

#23. Daemon spoke in his language. The lyrical quality of his words made no sense to me.
"What did you say?" I asked.
"There's really no translation for it," he said, "but the closest human words would be, you are beautiful to me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

N.K. Jemisin

#25. It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

Cedric Nye

#26. Being famous is like putting yourself on a pedestal for the entire world to see, and not caring about what judgements are made of you.

Chris Colfer

#27. Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Joe Frazier

#28. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.

Joe Abercrombie

#29. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

Zach Braff

#30. Oh, America, how I began to love your country! What miles of silences God has made in you for contemplation! If only people realized what all your mountains and forests are really for!

Thomas Merton

#31. With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Lake Bell

#32. This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.

Harlan Coben

#33. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Drew Barrymore

#34. What are you doing?" Len asked.
"It will sound stupid if I tell you," Jim said.
"No it won't. Tell me."
"I made a wish."
"What did you wish for?"
Jim looked into his eyes, "That we will always be as happy as we are, right now, at this very moment in time.

Ryan Field

#35. In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

Nicolas Bouvier

#36. Son of a - Rora?" Blake slid out of the crater he'd just made in the wall. "Crap. What are you doing here?" He saw my wrist. "Handcuffs? I definitely want that story.

A&E Kirk

#37. She pushed his massive chest, which was as effective as if she pushed granite. "What are you made of, bloody stone?"
He chuckled, eyes full of mirth. "Sometimes.

Lisa Carlisle

#38. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Dale Carnegie

#39. Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Silver RavenWolf

#40. Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

#41. Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.

Lisa Bevere

#42. You are a major dimwit. Is your brain made out of jello, you spineless twit? A leaf? What do you think I am, one of those magical raccoons? I'm a concept, get it? Con-cept! Concepts and raccoons aren't exactly the same, now are they? What a dumb thing to say ...

Haruki Murakami

#43. Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about
is the great discovery I have made lately
the discovery that all the
sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

Henrik Ibsen

#44. You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

Ram Shriram

#45. Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.

Julie Klam

#46. Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

Catherine Ponder

#47. I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Joanne Harris

#48. There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s - -loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.

Noel Gallagher

#49. You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Tami Hoag

#50. You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

Jeb Hensarling

#51. Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

Little Richard

#52. You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth ... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Charles R. Johnson

#53. 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

#54. For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

John Steinbeck

#55. When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of.

Justin Halpern

#56. For you, I'd soar down the mountains; die a thousand times, if that's what it takes to find the place where dreams are made of, the place where you exist.-Morgan

Melisa M. Hamling

#57. Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#59. When you are made to choose between two good things ... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Noemie Lenoir

#60. By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Marya Mannes

#61. One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

Jamie Cullum

#62. I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Karl Malone

#63. People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

#64. We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Lauren Myracle

#65. Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that's behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don't know wellness. You've learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.

Monica A. Coleman

#66. I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'

Carl Weathers

#67. They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works - although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn't see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.

Wendell Berry

#68. I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

Dan Levitan

#69. Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#70. It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something ... What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

Hans Scholl

#71. You know what's not sexy?" I pushed his hand away. "Barbies. Barbies are not sexy."
"But I bought condoms," he said. "I even practiced putting one on!"
The lost-puppy look on his face made me smile. "I'm proud of you, Boner Man, but that's not enough.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#72. Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it's what makes being a best friend official.

J.A. Redmerski

#73. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Thomas Merton

#74. Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Jane Fonda

#75. Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Brian Tracy

#76. When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#77. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Psalm 8:3-5

Beth Moore

#78. You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they are made of. In fact, when peoples minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them.

Michael Jackson

#79. You're kind of acting like a dick," I tried. "What are you doing?" Simon demanded. "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were playing some weird game where we made completely obvious statements," I explained.

Elliott James

#80. When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.

EL Seed

#81. When you discover your strengths, you are learning an indispensible part of what it means to be made in the image of God.

John Ortberg

#82. When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.

Takashi Miike

#83. As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.

Danielle Dutton

#84. There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

Marvin Hagler

#85. Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

Sondre Lerche

#86. You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#87. It wasn't a kiss, human, so don't get excited."
She sputtered in outrage. "I don't know what putting your lips on someone else's mouth means for your people - whatever they are - but humans call that a kiss."
"Congratulations, then. You made out with a hellhound.

Larissa Ione

#88. The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. And Mary, what of other men? There are no other men because my heart has gone out to you. And if you don't laugh I'll tell you what i think. I won't laugh. I think it's a fine instrument that God made for the poor likes of us to enjoy.

J.P. Donleavy

#90. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.

Rose Christo

#91. Beauty is being who God made you to be. Make the most of what you have. He gave you what you are. Nothing about you is by accident. The right people will love you unconditionally, just as He does.

Kate McGahan

#92. You and I are about to show these jackasses what we're made of.

Samantha Chase

#93. What are you doing?" I say hoarsely as he trails a finger from the beauty mark on my rib cage to the one on my hip, leaving a path of goose bumps in his wake.
"Connecting the dots," he murmurs with a wicked look. "Uh-oh, you made me lose my place. Now I have to start all over again ...

Laura Wiess

#94. The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Tom Waits

#95. These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

Nancy Sinatra

#96. I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?

Jake Gyllenhaal

#97. All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing."
Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.

Neil Gaiman

#98. I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for the love of God. You must give what costs you, go without something you like, then you will truly be brothers to the poor who are deprived of even the things they need.

Mother Teresa

#99. What I have learnt in life is that,
What we are today, are not the compromises or sacrifices we made in life.
We are the product of passion in priorities we make to enrich our as well as other's life. Indeed, you are only growing and evolving in your life with your tough decisions.

Rachana Shakyawar

#100. Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God - that is, if you are human - your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.

John Piper