Becoming Quote by Irving Babbitt Download Open image “Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.” — Irving Babbitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Chance Chance Worthy Look up Looked Turn Looks Looks Chance Luck Turns Worthy Worthy Looked
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself. — Joe Montana Copy Share Image
The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you... — Bob Teague Copy Share Image
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're someone that people look up to, they're gonna always find a way to bring you down. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image