QUOTES ABOUT BEING YOURSELF (1)

Quoted from Quote Garden

• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~E.E. Cummings, 1955
• He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
• All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
• The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

To be continued.....