Being Quotes

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

Being REAL means showing people who you are underneath all the TV make up too.

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

There was a difference between loving someone and being in love

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.

There are worse things than being mad.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Now that I'm here, all I wanna do is get better. I wanna be the best I can be.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

I think that's quite a good message, it's not about being the best, it's about doing your best.

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

Don't move your money from Bear. That's just being silly. Don't be silly.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Being in love is totally punk rock.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.