Martha Grimes Quotes

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

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I came to love, I came into my own.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Without education, you’re not you and I’m not me.

I invented myself.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.

When I started working with Maryse is when I really felt like people can start to see what I stand for and who I am.

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.