Top 100 Be Anything Quotes
#1. You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.
Sylvain Neuvel
#2. I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.
Shaun White
#3. I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.
Elliott Smith
#4. I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
Olga Korbut
#5. An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?
Alice Hoffman
#7. Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.
Diplo
#8. In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.
Robert Penn Warren
#9. I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
Damian Marley
#10. I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
Walker Percy
#11. Why did you choose that name for me?"
"Why, it is who you are." Angharath's tone indicated that the answer was patently obvious. "There is no other name for you. I see you before me, and your Essence shines with that one. You could not be anything else.
D.R. Ranshaw
#12. I wondered ... if there should be anything wrong with Sen. Joe McCarthy (Republican) of Wisconsin which a .577 solid would not cure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
Alexander MacLaren
#14. In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
Vivienne Westwood
#15. I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I've made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.
Steve Garvey
#16. I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
Jason J. Greenaway
#17. There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
Steven Pinker
#18. How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
Richard Simmons
#19. She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.
For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.
Marissa Meyer
#20. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. Be alive, be wide awake, be anything but boring.
Shey Stahl
#22. One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.
David Hilbert
#23. In this era where you can be anything you want to be, it is very alluring to miss the most important mark in life - fulfillment and meaning; Remember that, what you can do may not be necessarily what you are called to do
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#24. You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
Ramana Maharshi
#25. It's a vow that if I can't be anything else to you, at least I can be a weapon in your hand.
Leigh Bardugo
#26. If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.
Mik Everett
#27. For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
Malala Yousafzai
#28. Am I hot now?" he asked, his voice low and rumbling with arousal as his fingers slipped beneath my panties.
I arched into his touch, bracing my hands on his chest. "Baby, you don't know how to be anything else.
Samantha Young
#29. All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz Kafka
#30. The past is the past. The future can be anything.
Rae Ann Bosch
#31. Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
Ellen Key
#32. The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
Mark Twain
#33. With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.
Selena
#34. I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.
Lee Ryan
#35. For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.
Lilly Singh
#36. He couldn't work it out. He felt too young to be married, though. He felt too young to be anything.
Sunjeev Sahota
#37. I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
Thomas Bernhard
#38. Growing up, us Eighties Babies were all told we were the best, that we could be anything we wanted to be; it was normal to spoil kids and fill them with lofty expectations. The only difference between me and everybody else was that I really was the best and really could be anything I wanted to be.
A.D. Aliwat
#39. I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
J. D. Souther
#40. The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.
Roz Savage
#42. I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
Jonathan Evison
#43. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want.
Khaled Hosseini
#44. Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.
Karen Traviss
#45. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.
Jonathan Groff
#46. Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.
Delta Burke
#47. Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction
that would not be anything to be deplored
but a weakness of conviction.
Franz Kafka
#48. After awhile, life becomes technical college. You can't be anything you want to be. You can be, like, twenty things. That's it." - "Refund" from Shake Away These Constant Days
Ryan Werner
#49. What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.
Frederick Lenz
#50. If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
#51. I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.
Shaikh Ashraf
#52. The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
R. Scott Bakker
#53. Don't be afraid to ask for what you need to get the story you want. Be yourself and be informal. Forming trusting relationships with subjects is key to the success of the film, so if you're trying to be anything other than yourself, it won't work.
Ivy Meeropol
#54. I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
Brit Marling
#55. Be yourself and you can be anything.
Katy Perry
#56. If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.
Leni Zumas
#57. That's the thing about the future. It could turn out to be anything. And everything.
Terry Pratchett
#58. These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova
Philip Reeve
#59. I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
P.D. Ouspensky
#60. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
#61. I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.
Richelle Mead
#62. If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones
#63. You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.
Tom Rath
#64. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors
Thomas Ligotti
#65. Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.
Rajneesh
#66. No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine.
Emma Straub
#67. Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
Rachel Caine
#69. I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.
Corey Taylor
#70. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
H.L. Mencken
#71. As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Vikram Seth
#72. If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.
Matthew Ashimolowo
#73. But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.
Julie Anne Peters
#74. Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Johann Arndt
#75. Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
Michael Apted
#76. I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.
Elle Fanning
#77. If you don't have faith in your own abilities, it's never going to be anything more than potential
Jon Skovron
#78. What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.
Harry Bernstein
#79. But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.
Prince Philip
#80. I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
Charles Manson
#81. You've got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.
Annie Proulx
#82. I was too little to think a miracle could be anything but good.
Brenna Yovanoff
#83. I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.
NeNe Leakes
#84. Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.
Curtis Jackson
#85. Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
Tom Wolfe
#86. To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. You don't need to get anywhere or be anything more than the beautiful soul that you already are.
Cheryl Richardson
#88. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#89. It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
Bill Murray
#90. had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,
Jane Austen
#91. Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
Yolanda Adams
#92. No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
Ishmael Reed
#93. Once I got to know you, I would come to find it was that I wouldn't want to watch another sun rise or set without knowing you're mine. I don't have a lot to offer you yet, but without you, I'll never be anything. Together, we can do anything, and I promise to keep you safe for all of eternity.
Jody Morse
#94. Ivy could have been a model. Hell, Ivy could be anything she wanted. Except happy. Ivy had issues.
Kim Harrison
#95. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.
Charlotte Featherstone
#96. To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free. Let
A.W. Tozer
#97. I always looked up to Michael [Jackson] because he was never afraid to just be himself, never tried to be anything that he wasn't.
Justin Bieber
#98. When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
Suzanne Farrell
#99. You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.
Demi Moore
#100. We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
H. H. Asquith
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