Be Yourself
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau
Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland
Background circumstances may influence who we are but we are responsible for who we become.
Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - Dale Carnegie
Be the change you want to see in others.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle
Do what you can with what you have where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got. - Janis Joplin
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. - Aesop
How a person wins the game show something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing.
Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humankind: be both.
If I won't be myself, who will? - Alfred Hitchcock
If you change nothing, nothing will ever change.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. - Aparajito Sen
It is not what you do to live but what you live to do.
It isn't how you speak the word it's how you stand behind the word you speak.
It's better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
It's nice to be important but its more important to be nice.
It's the choices we make everyday that make us who we are.
Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you start worrying about what other people think of you, you stop being yourself.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - Joseph P. Thompson
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. - Kenneth Hildebrand
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else.
The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. - Whitney Young
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. - Kurt Cobain
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. - Thomas Simmons
What you are is a question only you can answer. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you look in a mirror, what do you see?
The person you once were or the person you will soon become?
You cannot change the past but you can change the future.
You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey
You're not free in life until you are free of wanting the approval of others.
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