Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Most Powerful Becoming quotations
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
Work until your idols become your rivals
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.
Your life will become better by making other lives better. It is not about you.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late.
It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.
When you walk in a saree, you must kick the pleats. It becomes more comfortable that way.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing.
It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin.
You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.