Top 30 Being True To Oneself Quotes
#1. I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Scott Kahn
#2. Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
Mike Svob
#3. You cannot be who you are not.
Simply rest, sit still and unknot.
You may even try to emulate and inspire,
But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#4. The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true.
Hanya Yanagihara
#5. I don't think there are answers. I think there are thoughts.
Muriel Cooper
#6. What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!
Russell Howard
#7. I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.
Nicole Holofcener
#8. To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
Sri Chinmoy
#9. I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs
Malala Yousafzai
#10. I find that being oneself is an excellent choice, as everyone else is already taken.
April White
#11. In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin
#12. God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
Alan Redpath
#13. True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R.D. Laing
#14. If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.
Janet Campbell Hale
#15. Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
Of destined habitation.
John Milton
#18. Simply said, one is contingent through and through, partaking of being rather than generating it out of some source within oneself; and the same is true of the whole intricate web of interdependencies that constitutes nature.
David Bentley Hart
#19. One can rarely say enough about the kindness of Italians. One is always treated as a human being who needs unpredictable things - like a moment by oneself with a bottle on the beach. They have a true gift for what can only be called spontaneous delicacy.
Lawrence Osborne
#21. Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
Louise Mensch
#23. Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self
Karol Wojtyla
#24. There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
William S. Burroughs
#25. It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
Simone De Beauvoir
#26. The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
Fred Hoyle
#27. She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Because everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.
Kathryn Stockett
#28. I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.
Stefan Sagmeister
#29. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
Harriet Lerner
#30. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
