Being Quotes

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

Take it and be thankful.

It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

Being a woman is really crap.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I want to be the best player possible.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.