Becoming Quotes

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.