Echoes

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

Become what you are.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

It is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style — all mannerisms, tricks, adornments.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.