Top 100 What You Are Not Quotes
#1. As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
Jennifer Stone
#3. Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
Cheri Huber
#4. What you are not the vibration of, remains invisible to you.
Bianca Gubalke
#5. It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#6. Sometimes, if not most of the time, you find out who you are by figuring out who and what you are not.
Kelly Cutrone
#7. The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles
#8. Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.
Mooji
#9. You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.
Miguel Ruiz
#10. If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#11. If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Augustine Of Hippo
#12. You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#13. It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
#14. You can't improve what you are not managing, you can't manage what you are not measuring, and you can't measure what you are not focusing.
Pearl Zhu
#15. It is better to be prepared for what could happen then to let happen what you are not prepared for.
Dawn Hartley
#16. Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you're really good at - and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don't try to do everything. You aren't the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.
Marc Ecko
#17. If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script ... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
Wallace Shawn
#18. It is truly impossible to conquer what you are not willing to confront.
Carla Cannon
#19. Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.
Marcus Thomas
#20. The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
Edward De Bono
#21. It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.
Graham Cooke
#23. Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.
Mooji
#24. It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#25. If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.
Meg Cabot
#26. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.
Mooji
#27. It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving!
Miranda J. Barrett
#28. You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!
Jentezen Franklin
#29. Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.
Robert Ruark
#30. If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
Saint Augustine
#31. Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld
#32. What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.
Paulo Coelho
#33. One of the most important types of decision making is deciding what you are not going to do, what you need to eliminate in order to make room for strategic investments.
Henry Cloud
#34. The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. Problems aren't out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.
Derek Rydall
#36. Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow
#37. Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
Saint Augustine
#38. Being transgender and in need of surgery is a bit like wearing a tattoo advertising something that you have no intention of selling, and constantly being asked to represent what you are not selling.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#39. Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.
Iyanla Vanzant
#40. Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.
Mina Loy
#41. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
#42. You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.
If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't.
Simple Introspection.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#43. All these corporate reports say they want zero carbon. Well that is ridiculous, because you are not telling us what you are, you are telling us what you are not.
William McDonough
#44. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
Mitch Albom
#45. I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be.
Erma Bombeck
#49. What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
Anthony De Mello
#50. realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. You can't be yourself unless you realize what you are not
Thabiso Monkoe
#52. In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
T. S. Eliot
#53. Be immersed in what you are doing, otherwise, you'll be immersed in what you are not doing or have lost.
Russell Eric Dobda
#54. Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.
Tom Hayes
#55. To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
T. S. Eliot
#56. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#57. You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not
Neale Donald Walsch
#58. It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.
Leo Buscaglia
#59. You can't yourself until you realize what you are not
Thabiso Monkoe
#61. It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#62. You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.
Darryl Anka
#63. You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!
Tony Gaskins
#64. Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!
Flannery O'Connor
#65. You must be a poet,
a lady of evil luck
desiring to be what you are not,
longing to be
what you can only visit.
Anne Sexton
#66. Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#67. There are very few moments in life when you see yourself for what you are. Not how you'd like to be, or how you think other people see you. These moments are very sobering.
Sabine Durrant
#68. When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.
Raul Garcia
#69. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.
Daniel Radcliffe
#70. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
J.K. Rowling
#71. The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
Nido R. Qubein
#72. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.
Sue Monk Kidd
#73. I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
Ronald D. Moore
#74. [...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...]
Jose Saramago
#75. 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
#76. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet
#77. I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.
Pleasefindthis
#78. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#79. People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.
Chris Rock
#80. Richness is not about what you have. It is about who you are.
Bob Proctor
#81. Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
Tessa Dare
#82. We are this world. Its next generation. If you're not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?
Claudia Gray
#83. When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.
Martin Cooper
#84. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#86. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#87. You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I like mature niggas." "I'm not a nigga." "What are you?" "An African American." "Well I don't like African Americans. I like niggas.
Vincent Morris
#88. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#89. Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.
Sasha Grey
#90. Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.
Morgan Spurlock
#91. When you understand this - and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" - you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.
Martin Luther
#92. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,
Kady Cross
#93. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.
Jason Black
#94. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#95. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#96. If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.
Peter Sagal
#97. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#98. What might not be there are the chances you have right now. If you can hold on another hour, another day - if you can live one more good, honorable minute - those are the victories. And they open up the whole world.
Lia Habel
#99. I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water ... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#100. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Mick Jagger
