Warren Bennis Quotes

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out 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.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

All you need to do is know who you are.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.