Becoming Quotes - Page 11

• No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, Experience, World

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• I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

  Janelle Monae

  Badass, Mistake, Fearless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

  Plato

  Change, Perspective

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• All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

  Vincent de Paul

  Littles, Firsts, Strange

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• To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Philosophy, Intelligence, Meaning Of Life

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• This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Respect, Fear, Hate

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

  Rick Warren

  Inspirational, God, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Oct 04, 2013

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• I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

  Jewel

  Time, Pain, Soul

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• My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.

  Yaacov Agam

  Possibility, States, Aim

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• Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

  Cher

  Becoming Great, Littles, Looks

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

  Stephen King

  Change, Lonely, Blue

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.654, Anchor

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• It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

  Jim Rohn

  Work, Self Esteem, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 25, 2013

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

  J. Cole

  Mom, Dream, Jobs

  "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.

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• LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life Changing, Love You, Taken

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.

  Robert Thurman

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Compassion

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.28, Penguin

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• One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Maturity, Mark, Ability

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Bombay

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

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• It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

  Mark Yarnell

  Mlm, People, Marketing

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• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Real, Asteroids, Digital

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Order

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

  Jack Nicholson

  Life, President, United States

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• Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

  William Petersen

  Dark, People, Trying

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