Marianne Williamson Quotes

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Marianne Williamson

• World
• God
• Small
• Child
• Fabulous

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Weird
  • Someone

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Doctor

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Die
  • Spirit
  • Attitude

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • City
  • Quality

• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Stupid
  • Celebrity
  • Become

• Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Men
  • Memories

• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Real
  • May

• The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

  

  Frank Langella
  • People
  • Work

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Character

• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Small