Top 100 Just Be Quotes
#1. A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
Maxwell
#2. Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.
Richard Diebenkorn
#3. When you find someone is crying and her life is torn, just be kind, extend your hand with love and be a best friend.
Debasish Mridha
#4. By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
Michael Ian Black
#5. The song is "Always Wanting You," a favorite of Dad's, where cynical, heartsick Merle croon about always wanting but never having his love, and about how hard it will be to face tomorrow cuz he knows he'll just be wanting her again. Doomed.
Rachel Cohn
#6. I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.
Eilis O'Neal
#7. The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared.
"You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton.
"Just ... be ... careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.
Jude Watson
#8. Do not censor yourself. Let go of that part of your brain and just be.
Red Phoenix
#9. It may just be a little sentence from the little girl, but what matters is that she had done it; why can't I?
Low Kay Hwa
#10. So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.
Simon Schama
#12. I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
Taylor Swift
#13. I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass
#14. Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#15. I quickly remember that I had put a condom in my satchel because I figured that pretending to be a ripped, violent warrior might just be walking lady porn.
Karina Halle
#16. If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#17. You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.
Amy Lee
#18. There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it. There's a clarity and precision and impact there that you sometimes lose if you put everything else in that background.
Jim Lee
#19. Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine.
Alber Elbaz
#21. You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#22. I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur
#23. Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.
W. Kamau Bell
#24. what does it take to just be kind? They could see she was melting away like a snowman in front of their faces, but they couldn't do it. It was brutal.
Randy L. Schmidt
#25. RVM Thoughts for Today
Don't just be who you are and what you are. Move, Evolve, Change, Grow and become Better each Day.
R.v.m.
#26. So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember.
E. Lockhart
#27. I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
Daya
#28. I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
Ansel Elgort
#29. Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.
Megan Fox
#30. I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.
K. Martin Beckner
#31. Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.
Julia Karr
#32. I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.
Tom Landry
#33. Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.
Crystal Renn
#34. What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#35. you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.
AVA.
#36. My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.
Corey Haim
#37. How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
Cormac McCarthy
#38. It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
William T. Vollmann
#39. You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
Anderson Cooper
#40. I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.
Rebel Wilson
#41. If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
Mackenzie Davis
#42. Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.
Hermann E. Ott
#43. Did you think you could treat me like shit at a dance, then sneak into my room in the middle of the night and tell me that I'm a troll with magical powers, and I'd just be like, yeah, that sounds right.
Amanda Hocking
#44. Stop documenting the moment for a second, he told me. Just be in it.
Emery Lord
#45. The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
Greg Behrendt
#46. If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
Eddie Van Halen
#47. I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.
Liam Gallagher
#48. What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world ...
Ted Dekker
#49. Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
Tony Danza
#50. How about we just be Haven and Carmine?" she suggested. "We don't know the ending, but we can always hope for the best."
"I like that," he said. "Besides, there's a reason we don't know how the story ends."
"Why?"
"Because it doesn't.
J.M. Darhower
#51. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Kohta Hirano
#54. Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
Cornel West
#55. Don't just be who you are and what you are. Move, evolve, change, grow and become better each day.-RVM
R.v.m.
#56. Build mutual friendships. Just be ready to end them when your friends start trying to eat you.
Jesse Petersen
#57. The gays, the kids, the misfits, the freaks, the ones who feel like they don't have a place... you got it. Just be you.
Michelle Visage
#58. I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.
Reggie Bush
#59. I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.
Norm MacDonald
#60. When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
Bill Gates
#61. To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!
Sourav Ganguly
#62. Mom always says I need to spend less time on the couch and more time being active. But the way I see it. I'm just conserving my energy for later on. When all my friends are in their eighties and their bodies are broken down, I'll just be getting started.
Jeff Kinney
#63. Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?
Candace Bushnell
#64. This isn't me. This isn't the Justice Drake that people know and loathe. Yet, I don't want to be any other way with Ally. I like who I am when she's around. For once, I can just ... breathe. I can just be.
S.L. Jennings
#65. It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
Brendon Urie
#66. People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
Mary Steenburgen
#67. Part of me was once someone you loved - she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can't be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love me if you wanted to. I want you to. Come to me when you can. I'll be here.
John Scalzi
#68. And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
Rene Auberjonois
#69. My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
Joel Osteen
#70. I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.
Haskell Wexler
#71. When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
Josh Turner
#73. As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
Alessia Cara
#74. I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
Julian Cope
#75. The brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]
Julie Anne Long
#76. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Linus Torvalds
#78. My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.
Nayvadius Cash
#79. I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!
Kellan Lutz
#80. I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.
Saoirse Ronan
#81. You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be ... And, you know you can be mayor.
David Dinkins
#82. Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.
Lena Headey
#83. He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside,but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.
John Flanagan
#84. Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.
Dennis Miller
#85. No, maybe it wasn't as dramatic as the term circumstances made it sound. Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.
Haruki Murakami
#86. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are.
Douglas Malloch
#87. Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned.
Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you."
Richard stared back at him a long moment. "I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.
Terry Goodkind
#88. It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.
Suzy Parker
#89. Michael was an emotional rollercoaster for me, and with each abrupt dip and turn of the car I was in, it seemed as if I might just be hurled out of my seat for a very painful, if not mortal, crash to the ground below.
Zack Love
#90. The settle, followed by 10 for power will give you that grasp on their nuts that you need. Once you've got that, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and squeeze and don't ever let up! You'll just be breaking 1500 meters down when you hear them yelp. Listen for the yelp, and then bring it into the dock.
Christopher Allsopp
#91. I'll still be with you every night, Kiera. Every night, no matter where I am, crawling into bed with you. Our bed will be a lot bigger, miles wide, but it will just be you and me inside it.
S.C. Stephens
#93. Oh my goodness; the highlight of my career. I couldn't pick a show or a moment because that would just be impossible.
Darren Boyd
#94. Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.
Ronee Blakley
#95. You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other
Mike Krzyzewski
#96. Peace ... Shouldn't just be a word but also a way of life!
Timothy Pina
#97. That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.
Andy Serkis
#99. That, my dear uncultured wolf, is a Charlie Russell - cowboy turned artist. Without him, Montana's history would just be a footnote in a Zane Grey novel.
Patricia Briggs
#100. Why not give it a go? Otherwise you will just be at home thinking about it.
Patrick Gregory
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