Quotes About Trying To Be The Best Person You Can Be

#1. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having. - Author: Larry Wall

#2. No is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you. - Author: Gavin De Becker

#3. I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem. - Author: Evan Rachel Wood

#4. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have. - Author: Alison G. Bailey

#5. I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. - Author: Ice Cube

#6. Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly. - Author: E.B. White

#7. The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude. - Author: Julianne Hough

#8. I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit. - Author: Kristen Wiig

#9. When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs. - Author: Rankin

#10. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become. - Author: Lauren DeStefano

#11. I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room. - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#12. In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through. - Author: Ted Alexandro

#13. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron. - Author: Jake M. Johnson

#14. When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world. - Author: Ray Lewis

#15. I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything. - Author: Juliana Hatfield

#16. The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right. - Author: Andie MacDowell

#17. My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into. - Author: Lykke Li

#18. God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else. - Author: Joyce Meyer

#19. Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field. - Author: Bryce Harper

#20. I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader. - Author: Mark Waters

#21. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best. - Author: Edward Hirsch

#22. The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year. - Author: Darren Criss

#23. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place. - Author: Rita Mae Brown

#24. People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy. - Author: Greg Gutfeld

#25. Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised. - Author: Steve Martin

#26. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you. - Author: John Lanchester

#27. In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to "pass" for a normal person but being clocked every time. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#28. I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back. - Author: Mary Oliver

#29. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person. - Author: Susan Wells Bennett

#30. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that. - Author: Art Hochberg

#31. I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together. - Author: Hannah Brencher

#32. Most common thing in marriage is to see the man or the woman, or both, each in their own way, trying to destroy the third person that they form together, the one that resists, that wants to survive regardless, - Author: Jose Saramago

#33. Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is. - Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#34. I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me. - Author: Molly Sims

#35. I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself. - Author: Hilary Swank

#36. You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview. - Author: Chuck Klosterman

#37. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to. - Author: Donna Lynn Hope

#38. How are you going to find the right person if you think everyone is just trying to use you? - Author: Tere Michaels