Oneself Quotes - Page 2

• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Positive, Confidence, Courage

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Depression, Insanity

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• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, People, Ideal Husband

  1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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  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

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

  David Carradine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

  Robert Breault

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Skills

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• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

  Anais Nin

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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• Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Being Yourself, Motivation, Reason

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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Success, Being Yourself, Secret

  "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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• A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  Pablo Picasso

  Success, Dangerous, Copies

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Acceptance, Different, Passive

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.

  David Spangler

  Life, Freedom, Love Is

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• How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

  "Contemporary Quotations‎". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1954.

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