Being Yourself Quotes, Sayings about originality

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

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

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

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

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
- Homer J Simpson

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

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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

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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

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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

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Most people are other people.Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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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

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You are a time millionaire for a rich life invest wisely.
- Richard Andrews

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
- Evan Esar

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Jennifer

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
- Shirley Maclaine

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I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
- Jose Ortega Gasset

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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
- Zig Ziglar

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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
- François

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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

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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
- Shirley MacLaine

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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- David Carradine

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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
- John Morley

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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