Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

Basketball will come and go, but the person you are will always remain.

What I choose to do reflects who I am.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.