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Being Quotes

We’ve collected the best Being Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Lady Gaga, Herodotus, Sigmund Freud, Luke Roberts, Cecil Rhodes. Use them as an inspiration.

1
I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
2
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
3
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
4
Conflict is good in a negotiation process… it’s the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
Luke Roberts
5
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Cecil Rhodes
6
It is really interesting to change your hair color after being blond your entire life.
7
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
8
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
9
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
10
When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.
11
Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.
Future
12
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
13
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
14
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
15
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
16
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
Vangelis
17
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
18
If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.
19
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
20
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It’s what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
Ralph Boston
21
We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
22
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
23
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
24
Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
25
Become a good all-around human being.
26
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
27
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
28
I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
29
I’d rather be busy, working non-stop, than being bored at home, you know?
30
Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it’s not a good idea to bring them into the world.
31
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
32
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
33
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Daniel Boone
34
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
35
As long as you’re not hurting anybody else, as long as you’re being kind to people and you’re doing what you love, only good things can come of it.
36
Being bold in the shirt of Real Madrid is not easy.
37
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
38
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
39
I really miss being able to blend in with people.
40
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
41
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
42
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
43
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
44
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
45
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
46
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
47
I can’t tone it down. I’m being me and being myself.
48
If you’re going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it – you can’t just talk about it.
49
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
50
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Erin Cummings
51
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
52
I just miss – I miss being anonymous.
53
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
54
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
55
I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.
56
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
57
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
58
I am happy being what I am.
59
It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.
60
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
61
Being humble matters.
62
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
63
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
64
When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it’s not like I’m always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.
65
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
66
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
67
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
68
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
69
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
70
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
71
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a ‘hot buttonissue, this is definitely it. Don’t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Michael Badnarik
72
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
73
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
74
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
75
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
76
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel
77
There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
78
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
79
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
80
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
81
Don’t be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
82
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
Alex Ebert
83
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor‘s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
84
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
85
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
86
I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don’t know how to explain it more. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain – not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.
87
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
88
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
89
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
90
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
91
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
92
A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.
93
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
Georg Buchner
94
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
95
Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
Pat Summitt
96
Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
97
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
98
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
99
I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
Sunny Deol
100
I’m up for challenges. I’m up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges… And I’m a little bit of an adrenaline junkie.
101
I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
102
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.
103
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
104
I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
105
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
106
Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.
107
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
108
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
109
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
110
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
111
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
112
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
113
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
114
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
115
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
116
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
117
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
118
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
119
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
120
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
121
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
122
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord‘s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
123
I’ve taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way – travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
124
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
125
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
126
Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
127
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
Rebecca Loos
128
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
129
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
130
We’re Real Madrid – and being successful is part of our DNA.
131
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
132
It’s no fun being a loser. Trust me.
133
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
134
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
135
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
136
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
137
Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
138
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
139
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
140
Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.
141
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
142
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
143
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
144
Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello‘ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?
145
Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
146
I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can’t join your gang: you’d think I was a phony and I’d know it.
Vivian Stanshall
147
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego‘s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
148
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
149
I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.
150
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
151
Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.
Lucy Carless
152
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
153
The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
154
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
155
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can’t throw things together at a farmer‘s market. When you’re working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
Carla Hall
156
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
157
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
158
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
159
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
160
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
161
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
Thomas Muster
162
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
163
One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
164
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
165
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
166
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
167
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
168
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr
169
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
170
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
171
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
172
I enjoy being active; it’s part of my lifestyle.
Sasha Roiz
173
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
174
I don’t mind being criticised, because I am not that easy to knock down, and no-one can destroy me. But I am bothered by the stupid people who call me dirty, brainless, and an idiot. You don’t say words like these to someone who you know nothing about.
175
My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.
176
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.
177
I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
178
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
179
Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
Leo Howard
180
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
181
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
182
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
183
If you go around being afraid, you’re never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you’ve got to have fun.
184
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi
185
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.
186
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
187
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
188
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
Elisabeth Rohm
189
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
190
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
191
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
192
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
193
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
194
I’m someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
195
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.
196
The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.
197
I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.
198
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
199
No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it’s always about living in the moment and being in the moment… I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.
200
Trajectories aren’t linear. Life’s just a roller coaster. If you’re getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it’s varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I’m a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.
201
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
202
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
203
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Raini Rodriguez
204
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
205
Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody’s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
206
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
207
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
208
Being chaotic isn’t cute.
209
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
210
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
211
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
212
No matter what the circumstances, you always enjoy being around guys that you bond with, win, lose, whatever it may be.
213
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.
214
I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
Doris Day
215
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
216
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
217
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
218
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace
219
Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that’s all part of how I express my identity.
220
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
221
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
222
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
223
Being able to feel free and comfortable in your character‘s skin is so important.
224
Maybe some people think that it’s all about the hype, about the fame, but it’s not. It’s all about being the best. It’s all about challenging myself everyday.
225
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
226
Good grooming and hygiene are essential. It’s never too early to start being concerned about your appearance – first impressions are everything.
227
Being yourself is very sexy, you know?
228
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
229
I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.
230
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
231
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion‘s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
232
I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
233
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’.
Joey Ramone
234
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
235
I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
236
You don’t climb mountains without a team, you don’t climb mountains without being fit, you don’t climb mountains without being prepared and you don’t climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident – it has to be intentional.
237
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
238
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
239
The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.
240
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
Doug Hutchison
241
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
242
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
243
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
244
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
245
My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It’s not always about looking pretty or cute. It’s about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that’s being silly or goofy or weird.
246
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
247
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
248
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
249
Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
250
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
251
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
Marcelene Cox
252
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you‘ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
253
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
254
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
255
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
256
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
257
I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, ‘Eh, I think she can handle more.’ And the angels thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re a lunatic.’ And God being like, ‘No, no, trust me. She can handle this.’
258
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
259
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
260
Everything I do, I do it being myself.
261
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
262
When you’re poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.
263
It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.
264
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
265
I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
266
There are good reasons for being in jail – for protesting.
267
There is a part of me which is aggressive and demure, the other side being bright, sexy and lively.
268
The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.
269
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
270
Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.
271
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
272
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
273
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life’s unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn’t always come easily, but I also know it’s her greatest gift.
274
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
275
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn’t being applauded when you arrive – for that is common – but being missed when you leave.
276
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
277
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
278
The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
279
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
280
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
281
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
282
You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.
283
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why‘ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
284
Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goalbottom line.
285
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
286
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
287
I love being outside and getting fresh air.
288
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
289
Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
290
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
291
I think being stylish is about being you.
292
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
Pras Michel
293
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
294
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
David Josiah Brewer
295
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
296
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
297
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock
298
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
299
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
300
Modeling, for me, isn’t about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.
Kylie Bax
301
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
302
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Erik Erikson
303
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
304
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people‘s lives… for that I give thanks.
305
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
306
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
307
‘Sexy’ doesn’t have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
308
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic fieldrequires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
309
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
310
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
311
It’s not just about being sexy, it’s about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality.
312
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
313
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
Michael Huffington
314
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
315
Being myself is what got me to where I am.
316
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
317
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
318
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
319
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
320
I’m not a saint. I’m not an angel. I’m a human being.
321
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
322
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
323
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
324
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
325
I’m gonna forget all the negative press and focus on being the best version of myself.
326
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
327
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
328
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
329
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
330
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
331
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
332
Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.
333
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
334
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
335
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
336
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
337
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
e. e. cummings
338
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
339
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
340
Who, being loved, is poor?
341
Being captain of Real Madrid is an honour and a big responsibility.
342
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.
343
Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself – that’s hot.
Ryan Cabrera
344
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
345
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
346
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
347
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
348
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
349
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
350
I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.
351
Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind.
352
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.
353
I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn’t see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager.
354
Freedom lies in being bold.
355
I am just one human being.
356
People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
357
Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
358
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
359
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
360
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
361
Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.
362
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
363
I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it’s when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers’ cafe and have a bacon sandwich.
364
By the end of my career I just really hated being out there on that field and being subjected to what was happening to me.
365
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
David Augsburger
366
Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
367
Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.
368
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
369
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
370
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
371
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
372
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
373
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
374
Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
375
I’m going to continue being me through the good times and the bad.
376
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
377
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
378
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
Diogenes
379
I’m not somebody that’s trying to be somebody else. I’m being myself for the most part and people respect that.
380
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
381
To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
382
I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
383
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
384
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
385
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
386
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
387
Art is the path to being spiritual.
388
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
389
Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.
390
I believe in being an innovator.
391
There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
392
You change the world by being yourself.
393
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
394
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
395
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
396
Being the best is:applying yourself to your potential, putting out the best version of yourself.
397
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
398
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
399
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
400
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
401
Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
402
I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!
403
What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that’s the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof – the same guy.
404
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
405
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
406
My normal life is like being on holiday.
407
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
408
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s rebellion.
409
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
410
Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.
411
The story being told in ‘Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
412
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
413
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
414
A human being is only breath and shadow.
415
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
416
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
417
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
418
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
419
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
420
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.