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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• 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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• 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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• Action will
  delineate and
  define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Inspirational Team, Action

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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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• 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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• 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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• They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.

  Pete Hamill

  Lying, Character, Home

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Personality, Becoming, Recognizing

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• As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.

  Karen Elson

  Boys, Media, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

  Holly Lisle

  Motivational, Actions Have Consequences, Firsts

  Holly Lisle (1992). “Fire in the Mist”, Baen Books

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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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• Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

  Flannery O'Connor

  Ideas, Generations, Where You Stand

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.407, Macmillan

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

  Anwar Sadat

  Believe, Important, Saws

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

  Rob Lowe

  Maturity, Thinking, Knowing

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

  Wayne Dyer

  Purpose, Where You Are, Knowing

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