Top 100 Not Being Quotes
#1. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.
John C. Maxwell
#2. Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.
Eli Broad
#3. No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
Evander Holyfield
#4. Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
R. K. Milholland
#5. It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.
Michael Bay
#6. When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
#7. When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.
Evander Holyfield
#8. When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.
Graham Cooke
#9. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#10. There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
Ram Dass
#11. In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.
Sara Zarr
#12. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.
Jerry Hall
#14. Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.
Rihanna
#15. I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.
Chevy Stevens
#16. My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
Tsukahara Bokuden
#17. Some people complain there are too many people on earth,
Some people complain about secret societies,
Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early.
Almost all people complain about something.
Dejan Stojanovic
#18. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? On
Margaret Atwood
#19. I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.
Tom Landry
#20. I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
Caitlin Moran
#21. To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.
Michael W. Clune
#22. The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.
Clive Thompson
#23. Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.
Bernard Lewis
#24. Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John Ashcroft
#25. The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
Bradley Whitford
#26. Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.
Joshua Ferris
#27. I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
Adam Savage
#28. When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.
Doug Stanhope
#29. A "successful" church can offer outstanding programs and ministries, but if its members are not being transformed, it is not a healthy church.
Kevin G. Ford
#30. I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
Olympia Dukakis
#31. There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.
Aprille Legacy
#32. I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable ... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
Amy Tan
#33. I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
Annie Leibovitz
#34. When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
Erin Duffy
#35. You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury.
William Faulkner
#36. I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
John Caudwell
#37. People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.
Joanna Lumley
#38. Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.
Craig Johnson
#39. If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.
Blake Nelson
#41. Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though
Henri Bergson
#42. The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person.
Paul Isaacs
#43. I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.
Victoria Schwab
#46. I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.
Ingrid Weir
#47. I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.
Elle Fanning
#48. There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.
John Kramer
#49. Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.
Joe Satriani
#50. Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second
and best
in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.
Theodor Fontane
#51. had to be men, and Brody hated himself for not being able to control that. He hated that he was taught to hate himself and anyone like him before he'd ever understood who he was. If not, maybe he wouldn't be so fucked-up right now. So fucked-up that nothing worked except men.
Sam B. Morgan
#52. I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
Aleksandar Hemon
#53. When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#54. The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.
N. T. Wright
#55. The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.
Robert Breault
#56. No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
Darren Criss
#57. I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.
Jessica Clark
#58. The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
Bernie Mac
#59. I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'
Buck Leonard
#60. One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.
John Oliver
#61. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.
Liz Weber
#62. And in garbage we find material proof that there is no plan for stewarding the earth, that resources are not being conserved, that waste and destruction are the necessary analogues of consumer society. This
Heather Rogers
#63. It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.
David Rakoff
#64. Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.
Dennis Miller
#65. But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X
#67. I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
Katie Chang
#68. In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.
Ram Dass
#69. If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.
Bill Maher
#70. To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
Kerry Bishe
#71. Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Ian Hart
#72. I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.
Roz Savage
#73. It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.
Mitch Kapor
#75. When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
Johnny Otis
#76. How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being?
Margaret Atwood
#77. There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
Voltaire
#78. I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
Shepard Smith
#79. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
Eugene T. Gendlin
#80. I'm not a klutz and I'm not being stupid, " he said
Stephen King
#81. I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
Gary Speed
#82. Nicole," she yelled, and I turned around. "Is it hard? You know, not being on the needle anymore?" "It's harder than being on the needle.
Marni Mann
#83. For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.
Elisabeth Shue
#84. I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don't last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.
Megan McCafferty
#86. Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one's duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.
Eugene B. Sledge
#87. When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.
Adam Ant
#88. I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Billy Corgan
#89. There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing / you are not being
heard / noticed only
by others / not heard
for the same reason.
Audre Lorde
#91. Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.
Steve Chandler
#92. There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.
Tyler Oakley
#93. Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
Evangeline Lilly
#94. I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'
Amy Adams
#95. A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.
Jason Segel
#96. Why dost thou not pray ... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?
Marcus Aurelius
#98. Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...
Thinley Norbu
#99. I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.
Hayden Thorne
#100. I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. ( ... ) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others. (p. 257).
Elif Shafak
