Quotes About Who You Are Becoming

#1. Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

Hal Elrod

#2. The framework of this body that you have right now holds the entire story of who you have been, who you are now and who you are becoming; the good, the bad, and the ugly, but also the blessed.

Tina M. Zion

#3. Instead of trying so hard to avoid what you do not want to become in your life, focus on who you are and who you are becoming.

Alex Blackwell

#4. Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

Robin Sharma

#5. Life itself is a journey after all, and what matters most is not what you are getting, but who you are becoming.

Robin S. Sharma

#6. In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

Jewel

#7. Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

Bob Goff

#8. Discerning God's calling is more a relationship than a route, more journey than destination. It's about who you are becoming more than where you are going. Perhaps it's less about what you do and more about how well you do whatever you do.

Levi Lusko

#9. With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#10. Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

Barbara Sher

#11. Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Gina Greenlee

#12. At this very moment, you possess the power of perspective. You can choose to see your life becoming whatever you wish. If you so choose, you can move the mountains in your life's path with the eventual help of those who will come to love you and learn to respect you for what you are becoming.

Andy Andrews

#13. Life is about becoming more of who you really are ...

Oprah Winfrey

#14. The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Mary J. Blige

#15. Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.

Cate Tiernan

#16. If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

Craig Groeschel

#17. This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

J.A. Redmerski

#18. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

Stormie O'martian

#19. I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Rachel Miner

#20. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

Charlotte Gray

#21. I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross.

Frank O'Hara

#22. In a sense, the process of becoming who you are is defined by carving back the possibilities that were already present. You become who you are not because of what grows in your brain, but because of what is removed.

David Eagleman

#23. That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Maya Angelou

#24. I started walking rather than driving to get my coffee. I liked it so much, I do it for 45 minutes every day ... You know those annoying people who are like, 'If I don't work out I feel ... ugh'? I might be becoming one of those people.

Ross Mathews

#25. People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

Jean Chatzky

#26. Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.

C. JoyBell C.

#27. Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Nancy Gibbs

#28. What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

Epictetus

#29. The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

#30. Our society tells men they are worthless perverts who reek of male privilege while simultaneously castrating them should they act in a manly manner, and now women are upset because men are becoming more feminized? You reap what you sow.

Helen Smith

#31. Writing is mostly a mind game. It's about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to believe it. And pretty soon, you start acting like it.

Jeff Goins

#32. Perhaps it was because of his wife that Pippo the farmer dreamt of becoming a sailor. There are certain people on this earth who make you want to sail very far away, and above all for a very long time.

Timothee De Fombelle

#33. It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

Eric Holder

#34. Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn't know better, I'd think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#35. Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

J.R. Rim

#36. The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life - to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.

Atul Gawande

#37. Perhaps ... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

Mark Morris

#38. In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future.

Sarah Lynn Phillips

#39. Becoming a good conversationalist is all about developing good conversational habits. Habits that show who you are in an engaging way and encourage the other person to do the same.

Charlie Houpert

#40. they have commandos and astronauts who know this kind of thing cold." "But Raz, you are educable, you can learn 'this kind of thing,' if by that you mean how to maneuver an S2-35B and how to assemble a Cold Black Mirror. You've spent your whole life, ever since you were Collected, becoming educable.

Neal Stephenson

#41. To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.

Ajahn Brahm

#42. The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else.

Tim Pratt

#43. Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.

Richard Rohr

#44. Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

Noel Whittaker

#45. Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader reality of who you truly are.

Ilchi Lee

#46. Learn who you are before becoming what others want.

Sissy Silva

#47. You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

Paula Abdul

#48. Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

Louis Theroux

#49. Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

Bryant McGill

#50. Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#51. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Brene Brown

#52. Will you bring life to your dream or will you allow it to die of neglect? It is absolutely true that you have a divine summons to fulfill, but it's not automatic and it's not guaranteed. You are the major player who must give yourself fully to the process of becoming.

T.D. Jakes

#53. If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

Nalini Singh

#54. You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

George Saunders

#55. Who we are to be is more important than what we are to do. It is the who that determines the what. If you can figure that one out, you will have come a long way to becoming a focused and content person.

Gregory Tyree

#56. Reinventing yourself and becoming someone else is simple. Owning who you are, that's the hard thing,

Sabrina Paige

#57. You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

Gary Snyder

#58. The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Baz Luhrmann

#59. Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

Rachel Naomi Remen

#60. Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

Vironika Tugaleva

#61. As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

Deborah Bull

#62. Birthday, celebration of life.
Celebrate who you are.
Celebrate your uniqueness.
Celebrate your achievement.
Celebrate all that you are capable of becoming.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

#64. When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Israelmore Ayivor

#65. You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.

Andrew James Pritchard

#66. What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?

Will Schwalbe

#67. The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Albert Schweitzer

#68. The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place

Barbara De Angelis

#69. You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.

Carew Papritz

#70. The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Henepola Gunaratana

#71. I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#72. And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

Dallin H. Oaks