Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.
Mike Ditka

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman