How does it become a man to behave
towards the American government today?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The rite of the rings appeals yet appalls:
a cutting, a joining, a losing, a gaining.
One becomes half, as two become one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
It has become appallingly obvious that
our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- The Buddha
When the universal sacraments of compassion and joy
fill the vast cathedral of our being,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being.
Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- Carl Jung
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- Thomas Jefferson
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
We must make it clear that a platform
of "I hate gay men and women'
is not a way to become president of the United States.
- Jimmy Carter
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
- Carl Jung
You can attract only that which you mentally become
and feel yourself to be in reality.
- Ernest Holmes
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America,
the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry,
and of criminal inquiry too.
- Thomas Jefferson
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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