In this post, you will find great Being Quotes from famous people, such as Finn Wolfhard, Scarlett Johansson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jay-Z, Confucius. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I mean if anyone’s comfortable being famous, they’re a psychopath.
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.
So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Freedom lies in being bold.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
I long for the countryside. That’s where I get my calm and tranquillity – from being able to come and find a spot of green.
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
Love is being stupid together.
To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.
I was really good at being a bad guy.
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don’t see the use of the monarchy though I’m fierce patriot. I’m proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
It’s such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you’re not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily–Rose is on that road already, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
I feel like I’m opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.
God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Man – a being in search of meaning.
Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It’s just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.
I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Modeling, for me, isn’t about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.
Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Being humble matters.
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
You don’t build a bond without being present.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
I’m not trying to be different. To me, I’m just being myself.
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
I’m not motivated by money or fame. I’m more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
No matter what the circumstances, you always enjoy being around guys that you bond with, win, lose, whatever it may be.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don’t notice is infinitely worse.
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.
Being transgender isn’t a medical transition. It’s a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
I enjoy being active; it’s part of my lifestyle.
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
I love being in a city with great weather.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through.
There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
What’s the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There’s a lot of joy, and there’s a lot of loss.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a ‘hot button‘ issue, this is definitely it. Don’t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it’s when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers’ cafe and have a bacon sandwich.
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.
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.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Who, being loved, is poor?
I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
By the end of my career I just really hated being out there on that field and being subjected to what was happening to me.
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
I’m not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What’s wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
Trajectories aren’t linear. Life’s just a roller coaster. If you’re getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it’s varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I’m a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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.
There are good reasons for being in jail – for protesting.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
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.
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
I love being outside and getting fresh air.
The soul is healed by being with children.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other’s micro-expressions.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Being bold in the shirt of Real Madrid is not easy.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that’s a goddess.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Being in water makes me relax instantly.
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what‘s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
I think being stylish is about being you.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping ‘tea’ isn’t cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
We’re Real Madrid – and being successful is part of our DNA.
Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello‘ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.
Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It’s a state of mind.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn’t until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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.
If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever. It’s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.
Jazz is about being in the moment.
I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.
I enjoy life this way, I enjoy life being in solidarity with the people who are fighting for a better world.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I’ve gotten from so many of the adult elders.
