Who I Am Quotes - Page 5

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup.

I am who I am and that's who I am

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

At the end of the day I'm not racing for recognition, I'm not racing for popularity, that's not who I am. I'm focused on the result and trying to get the best out of myself from a sporting capacity. That's what really motivates me.

I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

You can't blame me for who I am.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.

I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.