Quotes About Self-expression

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

He was indeed the glassWherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

Who is it that says most? which can say moreThan this rich praise,—that you alone are you?

This above all to thine own self be true.

The first requirement of personality is always freedom—

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I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

So if I'm not normal and you're not normal and they're not normal—why in the blue blazes do we all spend so much time pretending we are?

Some people say I sing behind the beat, but I'm in front of it sometimes too. I know where I am, and that's where I want to be.

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something... be something definite...

I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only . . . only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.