Being Quotes

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person.

Being is the great explainer.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

My approach is just being conscious of everything.

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

There's a difference between being in love with somebody and being absolutley in love with somebody.

To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.

What's cooler than bein' cool?

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.