Knowing Who You Are Quotes

• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Blight, Nations

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Fashion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

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• Action will
  delineate and
  define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Inspirational Team, Action

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Shoes

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

  Amit Ray

  Needs, Knows, Within You

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• Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.

  Ann M. Fudge

  Long, Leader, Fundamentals

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• No man should be angry with what is true.

  Plato

  Men, Should, Angry

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• God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cutting, Drawing, Ties

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• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Adversity, Christian Inspirational

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• Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

  Mila Kunis

  Life, Pushing It, Cockiness

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• Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

  Robert Henri

  Motivation, Emotional, Cherish

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

  Rod Steiger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Believe, Nobody Knows

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• Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Double Standard, Want

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Fighting, Silence

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Culture, Roles, Definitions

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

  Juvenal

  Peace, Mind, Guilty

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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• There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

  Natalie

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Understanding, Stories

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• Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

  Ken Blanchard

  Journey, Vision, Guides

  Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett (2013). “Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection)”, p.164, FT Press

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• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Knowing who you are is confidence.

  Mila Kunis

  Knowing, Who You Are

  "Mila Kunis On Kissing Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman: Who Is Best?", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2011.

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• I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.

  Jenna Fischer

  Couple, Eight, Years

  "Jenna Fischer Talks A LITTLE HELP and THE OFFICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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