Being Yourself Quotes, Sayings about originality - Page 4

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

You are what you think about all day long.
– Dr. Robert Schuller

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
– Fanny Brice

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
– Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
– Irene C. Kassorla

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

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

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

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
– André Berthiaume

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

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
– Charles R. Brown

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

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

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
– Louis Kronenberger

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
– James Matthew Barrie

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
– Samuel Johnson