You Are What You Quotes

“Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.”

— Ellen Raskin

“The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification-if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?”

— David Halberstam

“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.”

— The Bhagavad Gita

“You are what you love not who loves you
- Fall Out Boy”

— Fall Out Boy

“It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.”

— Christopher Pike

“Don't eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat.”

— Jim Davis

“You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.”

— Irvine Welsh

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

— John Jakes

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”

— Catherine Of Siena

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do”

— Shaquille O'Neal

“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

“Short is short
and Tall is Tall
You are what you are
That is All!”

— Stephen Cosgrove

“Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.)”

— Min Jin Lee

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

— C.G. Jung

“Sometimes, you get told enough you are what you aren't,
it gets in your head and you make it a self-fulfilling
prophesy even if you really aren't that.”

— Kristen Ashley

“You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

“As a reminder to himself that at forty-three you don't make plans to dabble in different lives. At forty-three, what you are, what you know, is about as far as you're going to go in this life;”

— Richard Price

“That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”

— Gianni Versace

“When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?”

— Sheena Iyengar

“You are what you think about all day.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.”

— Tom Robbins

“No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here”

— Jay-Z

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

— John Lennon

“You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.”

— Anonymous.

“However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.”

— Joan Collins

“You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?”

— Anonymous.

“You are what you are, because of, or in spite of past experiences”

— Anonymous.

“You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they are all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.”

— Heather O'Neill

“If your self esteem really does depend on how you look, you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it. Even if you get the perfect body, you're going to age. At some point, you have to take control, shift the focus, and decide that who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say is so much more important than how you look”

— Portia De Rossi

“You are what you are"
"Which is what? I wondered”

— Jerry Spinelli

“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.”

— Anne Carson

“The Bleach You are your hair and your eyes and your thoughts. You are what you look at and what you feel and what you do about it. The light from the sun is still a part of the sun. My thoughts of you are as real as any part of you.”

— Pleasefindthis

“If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.”

— Loic Remy

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

— Paulo Coelho

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.”

— Matthew Pearl

“You are what you eat ... I've eaten so many fat cunts you wouldn't believe”

— Bernard Manning

“If you are what you eat then feed me dope.”

— Big Daddy Kane

“I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are.”

— Moe Norman

“Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.”

— Pharrell Williams

“The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.”

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“To yourself you are what you think. To the outside world, you are what you do.”

— Marshall Sylver

“You are what you love.”

— Saint Augustine

“Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

“You are what you believe you are.”

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.”

— Thomas A Kempis

“You are what you do. It's about actions.”

— Bill Maher

“The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.”

— Brian Tracy

“Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!”

— Prince

“You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.”

— Lillian Hellman