Top 100 Who We Quotes
#1. There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.
Nalini Singh
#2. We cant change who we are, but we can change the way we do things.
Edwin Medina
#3. Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#4. We can only become who we want to be. Choose success!
Joshua Okello
#5. To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.
David Whyte
#6. I may not believe in sin," he said, "but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary," he said desperately.
Cassandra Clare
#7. There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
#9. All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
Zosia Mamet
#10. He created us to love Him, and something unexplainably beautiful happens when we direct all of who we are at delighting in all of who He is. It is proper worship of the One who is worthy.
Stephen Kendrick
#11. Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.
Barack Obama
#12. Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
Bruce Sterling
#13. We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions - and even our thoughts - is monumental, because every single thought, choice, and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
Hal Elrod
#14. When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about our lives. And when the end comes, even if the story adds up to only one line, the story reaches a settled conclusion.
Ilchi Lee
#15. Life is a progression of becoming who we are.
J.R. Rim
#16. Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.
Jessica Green
#17. I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.
John Shelby Spong
#18. We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.
Jon Meacham
#19. We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.
Eve Ensler
#20. Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
Gregory Maguire
#21. We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.
Nick Harkaway
#22. On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.
Jerry Spinelli
#23. We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters.
Elisa Morgan
#24. God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
David Platt
#25. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.
Emily Giffin
#26. The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.
Glenn Beck
#27. The One who made us is the One who guides who we become.
Hannah Anderson
#29. Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald Reagan
#30. Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are.
Nick Trout
#31. all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.
Gordon Marino
#33. Acceptance
There are things I miss
that I shouldn't,
and those I don't
that I should.
Sometimes we want
what we couldn't
sometimes we love
who we could.
Lang Leav
#34. Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
James Altucher
#35. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.
Yann Martel
#36. Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are
Marta Perry
#37. No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!
Malcolm X
#38. I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.
Carrie Coon
#39. Our attitudes are the results of who we believe ourselves to be.
Justin Young
#40. To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
Anne Lamott
#41. Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!
Dave Anderson
#42. A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
Kevin Baggett
#43. The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.
Bart D. Ehrman
#44. What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.
Ken Robinson
#45. To be shaped for life is never easy.
To discover who we really are, in the middle of what we want to be, or what we think that the world expects from us, is even less easy
Haidji
#46. You're a very good person who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Brene Brown
#47. We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we're faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart's a stubborn organ.
Kim Harrington
#48. We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.
Marlena De Blasi
#49. Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.
Augustus Napier
#50. Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts
to be received and shared.
Henri Nouwen
#51. There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught.
Woody Allen
#52. My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.
Philippe Falardeau
#53. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.
Mark Batterson
#54. I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.
Alante Kavaite
#55. When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
Greg Bear
#56. I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
David McCullough
#57. Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.
Greg Epstein
#59. Whatever the days are, evil or not, they made us who we are, and perhaps there's a reason for that.
H.L. Burke
#60. Every choice we have ever made equals who we are in this moment. If tomorrow comes, choose wisely.
Willie Herath
#61. Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Christina Baldwin
#62. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.
Hannah Brencher
#63. There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.
John Kasich
#64. An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.
Patricia L. Fry
#65. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#66. The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Where we go is not nearly as important as who we go with.
Suzanne Eller
#68. Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
Michael Greenberg
#70. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
Neil Gaiman
#71. How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.
Martin Luther
#72. Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development
Wangari Maathai
#73. Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.
Virginia Hamilton
#74. It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.
Rosario Castellanos
#75. Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.
Donna VanLiere
#77. Like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.
Leah Wilson
#79. Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
Brene Brown
#80. Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.
Sheena Iyengar
#81. This is what we've got at the moment, who we are. It's not nearly what we once had- the good, I mean- but it's also not what we once had, meaning the bad.
Therese Anne Fowler
#82. I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Ken Burns
#83. Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#84. We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
David Bezmozgis
#85. Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.
Eleanor Brown
#86. Who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
Joshua Foer
#87. America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows ... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker
#88. In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.
Maurice White
#89. What does any of it matter in the end but who we loved and how we loved them.
Sandra Kring
#90. In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. That's how people live, by telling stories. What's the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? "Tell me a story." That's how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#94. We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.
Miguel Ruiz
#95. Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?
Kathryn Schulz
#96. And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.
Michael Scheuer
#97. I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.
Hilary Swank
#98. Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#99. Respect what we have and be satisfied who we are can Bring us Happiness.
Jan Jansen
#100. Instead of trying to understand who we really are, we reach for the "Real Thing". And when the goods we buy fail to match up to those deep desires, instead of giving up on material goods, we just keep banging our heads against the wall and buying more.
James Wallman
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