Top 100 Who They Quotes
#1. It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.
Christina Baker Kline
#2. Continuing to hate someone was much easier than learning to like them for who they were, rather than who they used to be. I
Starla Huchton
#3. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
Deanna Lynn Sletten
#4. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
#5. The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
Max Cannon
#6. I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.
Richard Ramirez
#7. You can leave a door open for your 'friends,' but the truth is anybody can come in through that open door. And how do you know these friends are who they say they are, anyway?
Katie Alender
#8. Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.
Atom Egoyan
#9. I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.
John Simm
#10. But some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.
Wiley Cash
#11. It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.
Lorna Landvik
#12. I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.
Ruth Reichl
#13. Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
Anne Lamott
#14. A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are
Heather Brewer
#15. Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
Madonna Ciccone
#16. People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or its shadowy edge.
Julianna Baggott
#17. it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.
Roland Merullo
#18. My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
Corey Feldman
#19. People look like crazy, they do crazy things and they love their crazy life; stop inspiring them with your supernatural world and let them be who they chose to be.
M.F. Moonzajer
#20. I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#21. Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating.
Bobby Hoffman
#22. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.
Jana Deleon
#23. I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
Robin Tunney
#24. One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
Jeremy Heimans
#25. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.
Henry Cloud
#26. Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.
Solange Nicole
#27. You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
Pearl Zhu
#28. The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.
Emmett Shear
#29. I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
David Guterson
#30. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.
Peter Ackroyd
#31. Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
Oscar De La Renta
#32. The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are.
Mooji
#33. we are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#34. As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.
Elana Meyers
#35. I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.
Joe Biden
#36. Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
Tim Heidecker
#37. You never know who you'll meet. The world is about connections, Regina. Not just who you know, but who they know. It's all one big web, everything interconnected, everyone tugging on each other's strings.
Jennifer McMahon
#38. When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
Dean Norris
#39. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
#40. What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
John Geddes
#41. Have the confidence to be who you are, and allow others the courtesy of being who they are, without judgement.
Monica Alexander
#42. It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
Colum McCann
#43. I want to challenge people to find out who they are.
Charlie Rose
#44. Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.
Stefanie Schneider
#45. People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.
Leila Sales
#46. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one
Zack Love
#47. To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
Umberto Eco
#48. Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!
Tom Baker
#49. When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.
Zoe Whittall
#50. I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.
Margaret Cho
#51. Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
Marquis De Sade
#52. If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based on who they are and not on an abstract moralistic notion of how they ought to be.
Judith Warner
#53. The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Diane Cilento
#54. It's as if your parents have to die before you really understand who they are.
William Klein
#55. Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.
David Gordon Green
#56. There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#57. Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.
Bear Grylls
#58. Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.
Richard Sherman
#59. But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.
Lea Michele
#60. A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.
Faith Brashear
#61. There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.
Michael Gurian
#62. It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
Tig Notaro
#63. Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#64. A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You like for who they are
Not just for what they can do for you.
Nancy J Cavanaugh
#65. Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
Clarence Thomas
#66. They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh
#67. These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.
John McLaughlin
#68. Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.
Tony Evans
#69. I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
Roger Ebert
#70. Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.
Wm. Paul Young
#71. When someone tells you who they are, you need to believe them.
Lauren Barnholdt
#72. I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.
Estelle Maskame
#73. How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to their heart's desires. And by telling their stories.
Paulo Coelho
#74. I have to keep things vague, jumble up all the men, the lovers and the exes, but I tell myself that's OK, because it doesn't matter who they are. It matters how they make me feel.
Paula Hawkins
#75. My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
Connie Stevens
#76. I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'
Ruth Reichl
#77. People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.
Sasha Cohen
#78. I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson
#79. I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Zooey Deschanel
#80. For Winkler each hour was another hour between Cleveland and Anchorage, between who they were becoming and who they had been.
Anthony Doerr
#81. I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.
Dawnn Lewis
#82. You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.
Deepak Chopra
#83. Cause that's the thing about boomerangs, right? They come back even if they feel they shouldn't, they come back even if the world tries to stop them, they come back because they ultimately know where they belong ... and who they belong to.
Con Template
#84. What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on
Peter Weiss
#85. I don't check any particular box. I've never caught feelings for anyone because they were a male or a female. I feel for people because of who they are. Not what they are.
Tammy Ferebee
#86. A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.
James Redfield
#88. At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.
Bell Hooks
#89. An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.
Nick Harkaway
#90. This dinosaur skeleton was a body plus time. They all were. The question was what they wanted to do and who they wanted to love in the years when muscle and skin still covered them.
Ramona Ausubel
#91. World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
Neil Sheehan
#92. I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.
Dita Von Teese
#93. You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It's that discovery that makes a marriage work.
Mercedes Lackey
#94. Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
Johnny Weir
#95. Coaches can't limit their coaching to those who they feel comfortable or friendly with. Instead, they must actively create coaching conversations with all teachers.
Diane R. Sweeney
#96. Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent you. Women are not a homogenous group who all get together to decide how or who they will be.
Anonymouse
#97. There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.
LeBron James
#98. Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.
Frank Lampard
#99. It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Aristotle.
#100. Believers who are living in close fellowship with God are not going to think about how terrible they are. They will have righteousness-based thoughts that come through meditating regularly on who they are "in Christ.
Joyce Meyer
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