Quotes on True To Yourself

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

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.