Echoes

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

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.

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.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

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

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

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

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

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

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

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

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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.

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

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

My life is my message.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.