B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Be wary! Commercializing who you are may pave the way for a profound downfall. When you reduce your true essence to a marketable commodity, you may relinquish and diminish the beauty and authenticity that make you genuinely valuable and irreplaceable!”
“Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.”
“Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Be wary of great leaders.”
“Be wary of information sources that consistently evoke fear, anger, or outrage. Be cautious also of ones that yo-yo followers between such negative states and positive ones, only to repeat this whipsaw cycle again and again.
Question the motives behind the messages you consume. I’m sorry to say it, but there’s a good chance you’ll find hidden agendas almost everywhere that don’t support you or humanity.
Ask yourself whether the messages directed your way are designed to empower you or keep you trapped in a vicious cycle of always seeing the glass as half full.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.”
“Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.”
“Be wary of people who are always powerless in their circumstances.
People who can’t do this.
People who are too tired, too busy, too committed to do this and that.
Yet are convinced that you are flexible, convenient or available enough to accommodate them.
You aren’t helping yourself.
You are helping them to build up a dependency on your efforts and not theirs thus fostering usery.
They invest nothing in you.
And as such have no qualms about leaving because they have nothing to lose to begin with.
Such people are cowards and snakes.”
Source: 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women
“Be wary of people who live their lives vicariously through you.”
“Be wary of people who use quotes... I don't know who said that.”
“Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.”
Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
“Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.”
“Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.”
“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.”
“Be wary of the generosity of men; it could be a trap.”
“Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“Be wary of things that close the right doors and avoid them at all costs.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”
“Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.”
“Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.”
“Be wary of what you do with the attention social media gives you”
“Be wary of what you wish for.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt”
“Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.”
“Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Be watchful of the dangers of pleasure.”
“Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is eternal life. It is that God’s children, in a covenant relationship with Him either by lineage or by adoption, will be able to dwell with Him and their families forever. That is God’s glory-eternal life for His children!”
“Be weary and conscious of your words during explanations. Also be beware of the different angles you're being attacked from and cover them all or others may be misled.”
“Be weary of people who accuse you of aggression when you're being assertive.”
“Be weary of the selfish givers, those who do something for a hidden fee.”
“Be Weird, at least you will have a unique Personality.”
“Be weird...only losers are normal.”
“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
“Be what it is that you are seeking.”
“Be what they do not want:
Be thoughtful.
Be skilled at loving.
Be of good heart.
Be of the world tribe.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“Be what they want you to be now, so you can be who you were meant to be later.”
Source: Dawn of Chaos and Fury
“Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Be what we make, and not who we are.”
“Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.”
“Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.”
Source: This Sex which is Not One
“Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.”
“Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.”
“Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.”
“Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.”
Source: The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970
“Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls