Top 100 Trying To Become Quotes
#1. an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.
Larry Norman
#3. The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
Reed Hastings
#4. Imagine Michael Jackson trying to play basketball or Michael Jordan trying to become a musician. They might not have been so successful if they would have chosen to do so. Regardless
Harshajyoti Das
#5. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.
Surya Das
#6. I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
Billy Koch
#7. We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.
William Martin
#8. I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Max Weinberg
#9. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
Alec Guinness
#10. China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
P. J. O'Rourke
#11. A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.
Jennifer O'Neill
#12. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
#13. One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.
Roger Goodell
#14. I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.
Julia Sawalha
#15. I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
Ernest Cline
#16. I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.
Kevin Hart
#17. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#18. I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.
Gene Roddenberry
#19. Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
Herbert McCabe
#20. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become ... You are not your past!
Mitch Albom
#21. As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.
Carli Lloyd
#23. We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.
Laurence Olivier
#24. In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.
Robert De Niro
#25. Sometimes you have to get away from people even the one's you love because,they are not trying to become someone different
Martellis Thurmand
#26. Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer ... I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.
Nelson W. Aldrich
#27. I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#28. Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#29. I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.
Travis Hafner
#30. China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
Abigail Washburn
#32. I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg
#33. We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
C.S. Lewis
#34. I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.
Jimmy Nail
#35. Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Mother Teresa
#36. I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
Sam Hunt
#37. The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy ... the girl came.
Jonathan Antin
#38. I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.
Bow Wow
#39. Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
#40. Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#41. I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#42. Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
Jim Butcher
#43. As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
Adyashanti
#44. If the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn't wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are,
Donald Miller
#45. Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams
#46. I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.
Roxane Gay
#47. I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
Rupert Friend
#48. Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
Brewster Kahle
#49. She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower.
Ellen Cooney
#50. A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.
Matana Roberts
#51. I said, "What's your goal in life?" and winced at how corny and earnest I sounded.
He looked away. He thought. "I guess I'm trying to become a better man than the one I'm hardwired to be.
Melissa Bank
#52. Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
George Saunders
#53. To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is ... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.
John Rhys-Davies
#54. Feel what I feel within myself - that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts - or ideas realize the thing that they are -
Marilyn Monroe
#55. The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off.
Peter Maurin
#56. Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
Bruce Lee
#57. Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.
Max McKeown
#58. I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
Andy Rooney
#59. In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son.
Marlon Brando
#60. Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.
Josie Maran
#61. Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Arthur Miller
#62. Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.
Nikki Rowe
#63. When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
William Blake
#64. Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
Mark Zuckerberg
#65. As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
Gareth Bale
#66. We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us fix ourselves.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#67. I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.
Lena Dunham
#68. The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.
Carroll Bryant
#69. I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point where you feel that you have something that is your own. And if you don't find an audience for it, you are going to burst.
Robert Adams
#70. I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.
Peter Hedges
#71. What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
Eva Rubinstein
#72. I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
Ariel Winter
#73. You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
BoA
#74. I'm not trying to become the demon I'm fighting against
Professor Griff
#75. Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#76. After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
Chris Kyle
#77. When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.
Mike Colter
#78. Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron
#79. Caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and more like trying to become one.
Phileena Heuertz And Darren Prince
#80. It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.
David Almond
#81. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you're trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can.
Julie Murphy
#82. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
#83. In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#84. Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.
John C. Reilly
#85. I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.
Kim Dickens
#86. I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.
Dave Matthews
#87. Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.
Arlene Croce
#88. Authenticity is about returning and magnifying who you are, instead of trying to become someone who you think you should be. It's about peeling off the false adornments and standing wholly, holy, and true.
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
#89. The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
#90. In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
James C. Collins
#91. It's the process of writing and life that matters.Too many writers have written great books and gone insane or alcoholic or killed themselves. This process teaches about sanity. We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
Natalie Goldberg
#92. So you take her to the pictures,
trying to become a fixture.
Inch by inch trying to reach her,
all the way through the second feature.
Worrying about your physical fitness,
tell me how you got this sickness?
Elvis Costello
#93. Taking care of yourself isn't about trying to become perfect. It's about realizing and honouring,
in every moment, that
you already are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#94. Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
Michelle Williams
#95. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
Felix Baumgartner
#96. You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
John Edward Williams
#97. I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
Jason Aldean
#98. The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
John Green
#99. The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.
Brian Tracy
#100. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
