Becoming Quotes - Page 6

• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

  Ron Chernow

  Hero, Years, Yorktown

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• Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Football, Atoms, Tactics

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• We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Europe, Machines, Grind

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• I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Sight, Kind

  Judy Chicago, Edward Lucie-Smith (1999). “Women and Art: Contested Territory”, Watson-Guptill Publications

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• Give something back by becoming more

  Tony Robbins

  Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Giving

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

  Nick Clooney

  Evil, Defeat

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• Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

  Thomas Perry

  Book, Village, Edits

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

  Jewel

  Silence, Quiet, Who You Are

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

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• Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

  John Trudell

  Power, People, Storm

  "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.

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• Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Deities, Activity

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.199, Penguin

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Survival, Getting Older

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• When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Love, Satisfaction, Popularity

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1940). “Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry: The First William Alanson White Memorial Lectures”

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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• If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Finding Yourself

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• Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

  Banksy

  Cheating, Art, Deep Thought

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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  Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, Motor Racing, Car

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• The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

  Milan Kundera

  Life, People, World

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• Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

  Jacques Ellul

  Change, God, Christian

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