being quotes

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

— George Orwell

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”

— Taylor Swift

“It's an ongoing joy being a dad.”

— Liam Neeson

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin