Welcome to I Came Quotes, a collection of insightful and thought-provoking reflections on the journey of arrival and accomplishment. Whether it’s reaching a destination, achieving a goal, or experiencing a moment of enlightenment, the act of arrival encompasses a myriad of emotions and experiences. This page serves as a sanctuary for those seeking inspiration and motivation in their own quests for fulfillment and success.
Throughout history, humanity has celebrated the triumphs of arrival, marking significant milestones in personal and collective journeys. From the profound words of philosophers and poets to the stirring declarations of leaders and visionaries, the concept of arrival has been a recurring theme in literature, art, and culture.
Here, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that capture the essence of arrival in its various forms. Whether you’re seeking encouragement for your own endeavors or simply appreciating the wisdom shared by others, these quotes are sure to resonate and uplift. So, dive in, explore, and discover the wisdom that awaits. Embrace the journey of arrival, and let these quotes inspire you along the way.
When I came into office, people said, ‘Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?’ Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It’s not an issue. Michael Bloomberg
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn’t really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation. Samuel P. Huntington
A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote ‘Yeah’ by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was. Meghan Trainor
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. Vin Diesel
When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S. Sonita Alizadeh
Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn’t want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me. John Stockton
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along – and I must say I had a good time using them. Tom Wolfe
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. Joan Baez
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. Corazon Aquino
The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that’s happened. But I didn’t become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons. Angela Bassett
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn’t expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. Neil Diamond
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. Nelson Mandela
Time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was playing my first game against Ireland, when I came off the bench, full of energy and flying into tackles, even though I couldn’t tackle back then. Beauden Barrett
I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you. Jack Ma
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. Calvin Coolidge
When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried. Nizhalgal Ravi
Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now. Meghan Markle
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. Joe Biden
When I came home, my kids wouldn’t know if I went 0-for-4 or 4-for-4. I do not like to lose at anything, but I wouldn’t be angry all day… Once I left the stadium, it was over with. Ken Griffey Jr.
I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I’m doing now. Antonio Brown
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes. Bob Uecker
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later. Iyanla Vanzant
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that. Alexander McQueen
I’ll never forget where I came from, and I’ll never forget who I am. Gary Woodland
I’m a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes. Adrien Broner
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. Taylor Swift
Someone might come close to dying, and they’ll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports career, and I enjoy everything coming my way. Vincent Kompany
My message is just showing people how I came from nothing. Lil Durk
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri
When I was 16, I was watching ‘101 Dalmatians,’ and my mom never let me bleach my hair, so I told her I was going to dye my hair like Cruella De Vil; she didn’t believe me. I came home with my hair like this, and she didn’t talk to me for, like, a week. It was really hilarious. Melanie Martinez
When I came to Mumbai from Indore, I knew nobody. Kartik Aaryan
I think God is the greatest. I know where I came from, and I can still go any second, if I chose that route. But I’m just focusing on positivity right now. That’s where ‘God Is the Greatest’ came from. Westside Gunn
I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I’ve ever done it. Gabriel Byrne
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn’t come from money, and I didn’t come from circles of power. I didn’t come from the country club; I came from the town park. Megyn Kelly
I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along. Kriti Sanon
I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed – food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it. Gilbert O’Sullivan
I have the cliche ‘struggling actor’ story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn’t work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater. Pedro Pascal
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps. Kate Moss
I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove. Jay-Z
If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business… that’s where I came up with this idea of ‘new collar.’ Not blue collar or white collar. Ginni Rometty
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. Giancarlo Esposito
I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn’t have any money; a lot of times we didn’t have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I’m a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man – I’m living it. Dave Bautista
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. Henri Nouwen
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies. Asdrubal Cabrera
This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it. Frank Ocean
I had a lot of tough experiences at Bristol City. I came there for a few quid and was getting booed off by fans, got injured. I was out of the team due to injury but also because I was having an awful time playing wise. But they were amazing experiences. Sean Dyche
As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. Arnold Schwarzenegger
I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik
People need to understand that I came this far being chubby and all that. Imagine how far I could go actually being in good shape and looking good. Andy Ruiz Jr.
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. ‘Educated’ is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family. Tara Westover
I needed to take a break from acting, because I really idolized it. So I came off from it, and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian. It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn’t need validation from anyone else, or getting a part. Letitia Wright
During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine. Coretta Scott King
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. Ernest Shackleton
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo. Alicia Silverstone
There was a time in my life where I was very depressed, I had lost all self-esteem. I came to a point where I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror, I had gained weight. Momina Mustehsan
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay. Sarah Palin
I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called ‘Mirror Mirror.’ I got killed in ’em all – and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video. Mark Ruffalo
I had a mild case of polio – not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I’d missed out on a lot of nature. Robert Redford
In ‘Cosmicomics,’ I came close to science fiction – I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system. Italo Calvino
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked ‘Jasper who?’ I just said ‘Carrott’ – but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word. Jasper Carrott
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world. Thomas Merton
When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, ‘Okay, this thing is too good to be true.’ As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good – fundamentally, completely sound. Vitalik Buterin
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ Mark Twain
My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all. Abraham Lincoln
It was shortly before my 18th birthday when I came out and admitted that I was gay. Conchita Wurst
I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons. Jason Mraz
I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a ‘dirty Greek.’ Telly Savalas
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Barack Obama
When, after the accident, I came out into the world and people looked at me, they were shocked. It upset me. I thought they were impolite not to hide their negative emotions about my look. Niki Lauda
The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty and investment, with funds run by investment professionals. The firm I worked with, Wellington Management Co., they had one fund. That was very typical in the industry… investment professionals focused on long-term investing. John C. Bogle
I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn’t difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you. Joe Frazier
You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I’m the best in the world. I came here for you. You don’t boo me. Kurt Angle
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem’s a nickname; it’s a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands. Willem Dafoe
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down. Jerry Rice
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn. Edmonia Lewis
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed. Imran Khan
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. Leo Baekeland
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.’ Bobby Knight
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola
My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It’s the best feeling now, because I don’t really feel like I owe anybody. Dave East
I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it. Florence Henderson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world – I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power. Bray Wyatt
I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success. Robbie Williams
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke. Joyce Meyer
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. Eddie Bernice Johnson
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty. Viktor Yanukovych
R, Rod Wave, that comes from one of my homeboys gave me that name ’cause I used to be scared to upload my music. I just used to make music and just to listen to it myself. So one day, he just uploaded it and gave me my name. I came back to school, everybody was like, ‘Rod Wave!’ I ain’t know what the hell they was talkin’ ’bout. Rod Wave
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? Lord Byron
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. Johnny Cash
I came to photography by accident. Eve Arnold
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn’t. Michael Caine
The thinnest I’ve ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn’t work when I’m that thin, so I can’t do my job. That’s why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. Carey Mulligan
For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me. Beyonce Knowles
I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on ‘DmC Devil May Cry,’ and I kind of fell in love with this amazing architecture, where you have these buildings that have clearly been around a long time, and they have this amazing gothic look, and then on the first floor, it’s a McDonald’s! Hideaki Itsuno
I came, I saw, God conquered. Charles V
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now. Michelle Monaghan
I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will. Ferdinand Porsche