Being Quotes

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Be kind to people, do the best that you can do and don’t compromise yourself for anyone else and you’ll end up being the best person, trust me.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Keep on being yourself.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to like portray. I'm just being me.

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.