Becoming Quotes

What I am to be, I am now becoming.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.