Quotes About Self-expression

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

When you've got the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.