Becoming Quotes

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. (Confucius)
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. View quote
Albert Camus
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything. View quote
Eric Hoffer
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. View quote
Xun Zi
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. View quote
Brian May
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. View quote
David Hockney
Finally I am becoming stupider no more. View quote
Paul Erdős
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. (Henry Miller)
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. View quote
Anaïs Nin
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. View quote
Lily Tomlin
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. View quote
James Baldwin
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists. View quote
David Hilbert
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. (Anna Quindlen)
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. View quote
Kurt Cobain
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. View quote
Alva Myrdal
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