Being Yourself Quotes, Sayings about originality
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
- Euripides
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
- James Matthew Barrie
We are betrayed by what is false within.
- George Meredith
When we seek to discover the best in others, we some how bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward
There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
- Raymond Hull
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Know that you yourself are a miracle.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
- Charles R. Brown
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
- André Berthiaume
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
- Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- 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
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
- Lucille Ball
What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me.
- Dave Matthews Band
Individuality is considered a mans greatest asset, but a man without a personality should not be considered an Individual.
Originality is a by product of sincerity.
- Marianne Moore
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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?
- Fanny Brice
You are what you think about all day long.
- Dr. Robert Schuller
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche


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