Being Quotes

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Be yourself, that’s what makes the world go round!

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

What a sad business is being funny!

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

If you are brave enough to be yourself, I think that is a huge risk and should be applauded.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Being me right now is sort of amazing.

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.