Who You Are Quotes

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

  Kurt Cobain

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Love Yourself

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Home, Together

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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

  Ralph Smart

  Motivational, May, Limits

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• I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thinking, Best Friendship, Tests

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• The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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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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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• Be proud of who you are.

  Demi Lovato

  Bad Ass, Proud, Ass

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• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Authenticity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.60, Penguin

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.52, New World Library

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Life, Being Yourself

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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  Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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