Becoming Quotes

Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.

Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Becoming is better than being

Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

And really, I think I like who I'm becoming.

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Success means being satisfied with what you do every day. It's being proud of the better person you are becoming.

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

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.

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.