Who We Are Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  Edward Boyden

  Motivation, Inspiration, Alzheimer's

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• Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

  Jessica Green

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

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• Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

  Katie Chapman

  Hate, Love Is, Being Different

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  Nate Berkus (2012). “The Things That Matter”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

  Simphiwe Dana

  Self, Effort, Faces

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• I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Roots, Deny, Certain

  "O Magazine", May 2004.

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• It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Past, People, Progress

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• We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.

  Dinah Lenney

  Space, Way, This Life

  "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

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• The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from.

  Frank Delaney

  Believe, Blood, People

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Expectations

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• And our dreams are who we are.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Our Dreams

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.15, Dell

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• As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.

  Wayne Muller

  Moving, Offering, Giving

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