Top 100 Not To Be Quotes
#1. Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams
#2. The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. The Protestants taught their followers that faith is needed for hard work because every hardship on its own discourages, hence you need faith not to be discouraged. The faith you have, keeps you going and makes you to pass through the valley and the mountain top.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Albert Camus
#5. Please try not to be such a wiener-head.
Dave Barry
#6. Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three."
"If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.
K.M. Randall
#7. I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.
Meg Wolitzer
#8. To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#9. I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Neil Young
#11. I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.
John Caudwell
#12. A Book for the Service Minded as well as the Government Bashers, on How to Be and How Not to Be.
Mahesh Ubhayakar
#13. When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.
Samuel Palmer
#14. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.
Colin Higgins
#15. Teach me, Lord Jesus,... not to be hungering for the 'strange and peculiar' when the common, ordinary, and regular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.
Jim Eliot
#16. As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
Victoria Smurfit
#17. In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
#18. It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#19. It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
Meghan O'Rourke
#20. Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
Daniel Handler
#21. I hope it hurts," she said vehemently. "Perhaps that will teach you not to be running about on rooftops! What possessed you to do such a thing?"
Sir Ross gave her a narrow-eyed glance. "For some reason the suspect didn't want to come down to the ground so that I could catch him more easily.
Lisa Kleypas
#22. I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
Dashiell Hammett
#23. The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God
Sunday Adelaja
#25. The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
#26. Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
Gina Gershon
#27. There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
Frederick Lenz
#28. For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
Leo Rosten
#29. Death was as true and as common as poverty; yet people never spoke about that, loud out in the streets. It was a word not to be mentioned to ears polite.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#30. The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
Virginia Woolf
#31. I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool ... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.
H. Rider Haggard
#32. To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#33. Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as new. Now you'll be feeling blue. But that's what friends are for!
Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
#34. I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound.
Martin Luther
#35. I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.
Uzodinma Iweala
#36. An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Aristophanes
#37. But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.
William Shakespeare
#38. In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
Mehmet Oz
#39. My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.
Joan Collins
#40. Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.
George Orwell
#41. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#42. We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#43. Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
Robert Bateman
#44. The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#45. In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins
#46. We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Brother Lawrence
#47. The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.
Edward J. Young
#48. Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.
Chris Jirika
#49. To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
George Santayana
#50. I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon De Valera
#51. I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
P.C. Cast
#52. Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
#53. Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
#57. We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
James Montgomery Boice
#58. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs
#60. When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Stevie Nicks
#61. Father Fogden blinked, brought back to attention. He made an unsuccessful attempt to stifle another belch, and transferred his bright blue gaze to Fergus. "You have a name, too? And a cock?" "Yes," said Fergus, wisely choosing not to be more specific.
Diana Gabaldon
#63. Destiny is not to be trifled with. Do not commit the tragic error of satisfying present appetite at the cost of future fulfilment
Russell Hoban
#64. I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.
Peter Doig
#65. ..the good life warrants an ongoing struggle to be clear about what's important, and to seek it with lucidity and passion; not to be distracted by false ambitions, or waylaid by dissipated conscious
Damon Young
#66. When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. "Do they expect students not to be anarchists?" he said. "What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le Guin
#67. Think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps
Charles Dickens
#68. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
Marie De Gournay
#69. I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
David Byrne
#70. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
#71. Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
J.M. Barrie
#72. What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
Gao Xingjian
#73. The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
Barry Sanders
#74. When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder
#75. Indeed, if to be in love is not to be able to live without possessing that person one desires, to sacrifice to her one's time, one's pleasures, one's life, then I am really in love.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#76. The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Francois Fenelon
#77. Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self. IX. Humility
Andrew Murray
#78. There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.
Victoria Woodhull
#79. Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.
Frank Warren
#80. Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
Neil Gaiman
#81. With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.
Maria Montessori
#82. I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Trinny Woodall
#83. In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#84. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
Ayn Rand
#85. I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy
#86. I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
Lennart Nilsson
#87. I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
Neil Kinnock
#88. I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.
Victor Ponta
#89. I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.
Lisa Yuskavage
#90. If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.
Michael Palin
#91. And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost.
Ayn Rand
#92. We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#93. With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
#94. There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran
#95. The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons
#96. To be, or not to be ... a potato
Me
#97. Our role models today
60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be
Prince Ea
#98. I prefer not to be called 'cute' or 'little,' thank you very much." He grins again. "I should get a T-shirt that says that.
Karen Kincy
#99. That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Anonymous
#100. But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough.
John Green
