Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You become a spiritual person when you receive the mind of God, and the whole world changes for you.”
Source: Corinthian Confusion
“You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company”
“You become a true philanthropist only when you empty yourself to be a blessing to others without expecting anything in return”
“You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.”
“You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.”
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”
“You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.”
“You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.”
“You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.”
“You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.”
“You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.”
“You become an adult when you stop worrying about other people's opinions.
You become a leader when you start caring about other people's lives.”
“You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.”
“You become an artist to upset your family.”
“You become an expert through time and experience—10,000+ hours honing your craft.”
“You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.”
“You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.”
“You become bound to the mundane through your daily rituals, habits, and rules.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.”
“You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.”
“You become fearful the moment you identify with fear. But once you begin seeing it as an impersonal changing phenomenon, you become free.”
Source: The essence of trading psychology in one skill
“You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.”
“You become free and fearless when you realize that all are equally clueless about life, be it old or young, rich or poor, king or servant, educated or uneducated...”
“You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.”
“You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.”
“You become great by going small thing in a great way.”
“You become great when you earn the trust of people more than anyone else.”
“You become increasingly comfortable with madness and not just the madness of others, but your own. We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
Source: The Silent Patient
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
Source: The Velveteen Rabbit
“You become like the people you spend the most time with.”
“You become like what you worship”
Source: Revelation for Everyone
“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.”
“You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.”
“You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.”
“You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.”
“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is”
“You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.”
“You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most.”
“You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.”
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
“You become rich by helping the poor; you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you rich!”
“You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that. I want to be able to be free and explore. So I won't really watch it, but I would love to do, like, The Incredibles, or something like that. I would love to do a movie that's really, really good and animated. Inside Out, something like that. Something really smart.”
“You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk”
“You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.”
“You become so intense that you are not there, because if you are there then the intensity cannot be total; then two are there. If you love and the lover is there, then love cannot be intense. Love so deeply, so totally, that the lover disappears. Then you are just an energy moving. Then you will know love, you will know life, you will know death.”