Top 670 Being Quotes

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

The streets of India are not safe for children, and every year, thousands are forced to live on the streets, avoiding being kidnapped or worse.

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.

‘Born this Way’ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

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.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself – that’s hot.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.

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.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see – they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Play the role as a human being… human beings are three-dimensional.

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.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.

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.

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.

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.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

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.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they’re being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they’re being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I mean if anyone’s comfortable being famous, they’re a psychopath.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

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.

Being cool, having a ‘cool’ energy is just not attractive to me.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.

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.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don’t really know what to trust, and it’s a real danger to society.

I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

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.

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.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.