Quotes About Being Yourself II

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.~Johann von Goethe

We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence. ~Honoré de Balzac

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. ~John Mason

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.~Andre Gide

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White)

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Man would be “otherwise.” That’s the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.~Louis Kronenberger

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.~Kurt Vonnegut

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann