Browsing Topic Best True To Oneself Quotes

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

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

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.

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

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one’s party three times a day.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

I paint with a language I can call my own… it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.