What You Become Quotes

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity ... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid. ~ Romain Gary

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. ~ Khaled Hosseini

Only you can decide what you become. ~ Seth Adam Smith

Your degree of merit has nothing to do with your results. What matters is what you become and not what you did yesterday. Do your best today and that will be represented tomorrow. ~ Alan Maiccon

Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Goals are important but what you become to achieve goals is much more important. ~ Debasish Mridha

We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become. ~ Seth Adam Smith

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it. ~ Steve Maraboli

You become what you focus on and dream about. ~ Debasish Mridha

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It's about what you become. ~ Michael Hyatt

It's not my job to change or fix you…my job is to love you with no expectations of you ever being anything more than what you are. If you change at all, I will love what you become, whatever it may be. ~ Christine Zolendz

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become. ~ Joel Brown

What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown, ~ Erin Arvedlund

Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It's not so much what you win, it's what you become. ~ Johnny Hunt

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share. ~ Steve Maraboli

What you want to be defines what you become. ~ Ron Kaufman

Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts from the mental and the spiritual. ~ Nana Awere Damoah

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become. ~ Mitch Albom

I've been living out loud the Henry David Thoreau saying: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." The quest of the Cuba ~ Diana Nyad

Here's the truth: No matter what happened on the stage tonight, no matter where you went when you drove out of here, no matter where you end up, no matter what happens, what you become, what you gain, what you lose, whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no matter what you dip your hands into...no gone is too far gone.

You can always come home.

And when you do, you'll find me standing right here, arms wide, eyes searching for your return.

I love you. ~ Charles Martin

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. ~ Lou Holtz

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. ~ Sri Aurobindo

A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important. ~ Debasish Mridha

Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become. ~ Udai Yadla

What you become is what counts. ~ Liz Smith

What you say is what you believe, and what you believe is what you BECOME! ~ Rachel G. Scott

It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class ~ Azim Jamal

The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities in you have always been there, but when you get stuck in the past and make your pain your identity, then that's what you become… To have a future, you have to let the past be past. ~ Bethenny Frankel

What you do daily determines what you become permanently ~ Mike Murdock

What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing. ~ LaVell Edwards

What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become. ~ Jim Rohn

What you think about the most is reflected in what you become. ~ Steven Redhead

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career. ~ Rick Warren

Why? Why are you hitting me?"
He leaned down and looked me right in the face.
"If I didn't hit you Minny, who knows what you become. ~ Kathryn Stockett

Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with.
And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes.
And the changes are what you become.
Change the outcome by changing your circle. ~ Seth Godin

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness ~ Swami Vivekananda

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want
don't compromise! ~ Jim Rohn

Your driving desires will determine what you become. ~ Debasish Mridha

The primary reward is not the goal but what you become as a result of doing all that was necessary to reach the goal. - David McNalley ~ Carol M. Roberts

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Your believe is what makes you, coz you are the product of your thought ... what you believe is what you become, no doubt, ~ David Oyedepo

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

They already call you their Snow Queen. If you declared yourself the Empress of the Continent, they would ask what you wanted on your coat of arms. ~ K.M. Shea

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing. ~ Zakk Wylde

People will always try to steal
your power. When you do well, they'll say it's only because you're rich and your parents are big shots. People who care about you will try to steal
your power, too, but they'll go about it differently. When you fail at something, they'll try to make you feel better by saying that nobody's good at
everything, and you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. They might tell you not to feel bad about screwing up a math test because math's hard for girls.
Or they'll say you shouldn't worry so much about injustice in the world because you're only one person. And even though they mean well, they'll be
making you less than what you can be. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done. ~ Suetonius

What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid. ~ Bo Sanchez

Show me what you did to yourself while I was away, and I'll give you a reward. ~ Sherilee Gray

But there are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them ~ Lemony Snicket

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love. ~ Joanna Lumley

The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider to be less fortunate than themselves. This has become the standard for measuring the goodness of a person. But this is erroneous. It is in fact very easy to be good to those whom you consider to be less fortunate than yourself. You know what's difficult? Being good to those you envy! That is what's difficult to do! People believe themselves to practice equality because they are good to those who are lesser than they are, but this is not equality if they do not show the same amount of goodness to the people who happen to be more than they are. I always look at how a person treats those who are more than they are, and that is how I determine the goodness in a person. Because the other option is just too easy. The other option comes with all benefit and no loss. ~ C. JoyBell C.

I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind. ~ Amanda Mosher

What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. ~ Gary Zukav

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts. ~ Chris Matthews

I can't stop you from killing yourself. If that's what you truly want, no one can stop you. I can't be around twenty-four hours a day, looking after you. But if that's what you want, don't you think you owe it to your mother to talk to her first? ~ Barry Lyga

An important part of being an alpha is to be hateful and calculating, but to appear just inconsiderate. You need to put in effort to get what you want, but people will push back if they think you're doing something maliciously. If they believe you just don't know any better, are just kind of a selfish dick and they got in the way of that, rather than thinking they were a target, then you can get away with a lot more, and from then on they either avoid you or accept you as a force of nature. ~ A.D. Aliwat

You don't know who you are or what you are capable of until you actually step up and try. ~ Jason Taylor

No one can tell you what you can't do. You can do whatever you believe you can. Live up to your own expectations, not other peoples. ~ Avina Celeste

It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life. ~ Stephen Covey

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen. ~ Mariah Carey

Caleb?" My heart is beating hard, and I'm still pissed at him. He's smiling … but when his eyes meet mine, he sobers.
"Yeah."
"Don't fucking touch me like that again unless you plan to finish what you start."
His eyes go hard and his jaw tightens. Before I can turn and walk away, he grabs my wrist and pulls me against him, pinning my arms between our bodies.
"Let's get this straight, Brynna. I want you so fucking bad my teeth ache. I've wanted you for months. But you're part of my family, and I'm supposed to be protecting you. Dropping my guard and fucking you into the mattress is not the way to keep any of you whole. ~ Kristen Proby

Don't throw away your suffering. Touch your suffering. Face it directly, and your joy will become deeper. You know that suffering and joy are both impermanent. Learn the art of cultivating joy. Practice like this, and you come to the third turning of the Third Noble Truth, the "Realization" that suffering and happiness are not two. When you reach this stage, your joy is no longer fragile. It is true joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. ~ Drew Houston

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past. ~ Rohinton Mistry

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! ~ Charles Lamb

You are what you drive in L.A. ~ Melanie Mayron

Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables
you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
Another said: I bet that is also a parable.
The first said: You have won.
The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.
The first said: No, in reality; in parable you have lost. ~ Franz Kafka

Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it. ~ Lian Tanner

I'd like all of you to ask yourselves what you would have done, were you a student here in Valentine Morgenstern's day. Would you have joined the Circle? Would you have stood by Valentine's side at the Uprising? Raise your hand, if you think it's possible. Simon was unsurprised to see not a single hand in the air. He'd played this game back in mundane school, every time his history class covered World War II. Simon knew no one ever thought they would be a Nazi. Simon ~ Cassandra Clare

Remember when your dream was just an idea; never forget when nobody could see what you saw, when there was no win in sight. ~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over. ~ Sean Connery

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm ~ Meg Wolitzer

Remember that it is quicker to destroy than build, so be careful of what you do even with your own tongue. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

What you believe and focus on becomes your reality. ~ Michael McMillian

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in. ~ Thaddeus Golas

The people too seemed diminished. Her favourite aunt was still her favourite, of course, but whereas she had always been impressed by the wisdom of what her aunt said, now her words seemed no more than trite. And what was worse, she had actually felt embarrassed at some of her pronouncements, thinking that such observations would seem quaint in Gaborone. That had made her feel guilty, and she had tried to smile appreciatively at her aunt's remarks, but somehow the effort seemed too great. She knew this was wrong; she knew that you should never forget what you owed to home, and to family, and to the place that nurtured you, but sometimes it was difficult to put this into practice. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ... ~ Geneen Roth

If you don't say what you need to say when you have a chance ... you'll regret it. Even if you're mad, say it. Scream it into the world while you still have a chance to. Because once life passes you by, it's gone. And so are the words left unspoken. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

The media's weird obsession with billing immigrant terrorists as apple-pie Americans leads to comical results, such as the panelists on MSNBC's The Cycle puzzling over how Aafia Siddiqui, a "U.S.-trained scientist" could have become radicalized.56 Here's a tip for MSNBC: When you can't pronounce the terrorist's name, the rest of America isn't sitting in slack-jawed amazement. Siddiqui wasn't an American by any definition. She wasn't even an anchor baby. Rather, Siddiqui was born and raised in Pakistan and came to the United States as an adult via our seditious universities. After an arranged marriage over the phone with another Pakistani, who - luckily for America! - joined her here, she divorced and married the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Who could have seen Siddiqui's radicalism coming? ~ Ann Coulter

Get inches from the mirror and tell yourself what happened. Give yourself the news like an autopsy. At 10:02 on Saturday, he discarded you. At oh-nine-hundred-hours, you were overlooked. At whatever time of whenever day, it didn't work, and it wasn't what you thought, and it left you in the ash and the rain. Cry and holler and selectively remember whatever it is you want. It will be whatever you want. ~ Kelton Wright