Who We Are Quotes - Page 16

• It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

  Robert Pinsky

  Memories, Identity, Remember

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• When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Believe, Choices, Identity

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• Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2017

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• In violence, we forget who we are

  Mary McCarthy

  War, Domestic Violence, Forget

  On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, Justice For All, Liberty

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Basketball, Support, Identity

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Philosophy, Understanding, Humanity

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• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Destiny, Knowing, Goal

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Rights, Issues

  "Obama administration reveals plans to advance gay agenda". www.catholicnewsagency.com. November 23, 2008.

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• For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Memories, Gay

  Barack Obama's speech at Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 20, 2013.

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• Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

  Sukarno

  Forget

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• Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

  David Gemmell

  Together, Lad

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Purpose, Knows

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• When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Who I Am, Darkness

  Paris Review, Issue 116, 1990.

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

  Chris Abani

  Fashion, Wall, Home

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Running, Successful, Stuff

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• Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

  Jack LaLanne

  Why Not, Matter, Life Is

  Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Our World, Differences

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Differences, Giving, Littles

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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