Quotes about Being

"The secret of being boring is to say everything."
-Voltaire

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
-George Orwell

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
-George Orwell

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot."
-Scott Adams

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde

"Being natural is simply a pose."
-Oscar Wilde

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
-Oscar Wilde

"Freedom lies in being bold."
-Robert Frost

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
-Lao tzu

"Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being."
-Sri Chinmoy

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."
-William Shakespeare

"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
-Katharine Hepburn

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
-Seneca

"I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun."
-Scott Westerfeld

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept."
-Isak Dinesen

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."
-Confucius

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it."
-Randy K. Milholland

"An honor is not diminished for being shared."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
-Jawaharlal Nehru