Quotes About Self-expression

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

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

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!