True To Yourself Quotes

• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

  Richard Bach

  Fake People, Truth, Integrity

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.47, Random House

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• You have to be true to yourself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Be True To Yourself, Being True

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• 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 de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  Jim Morrison

  Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

  "Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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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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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Being Single

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• About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Life, Being Yourself

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Positive, Happiness, Being Yourself

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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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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• Drink deeply from good books.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Book, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.43, Revell

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Lexicographer, Criminal Mind

  The Rambler, No. 135, July 02, 1751.

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• Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique

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• There is just one life for each of us: our own.

  Euripides

  Life, Positive, Graduation

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• About all you can do in life is be who you are.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• 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

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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

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