Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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?
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
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