Inspirations Being Yourself Quotes - Page 4

• If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

  Charlie Peacock

  Beautiful, World, Want

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Asking

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

  Ashley Purdy

  Being Yourself, World, Branding

  FaceBook post by Ashley Purdy from May 08, 2011

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Being Yourself, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.129

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• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fighting, Battle, Hardest

  "Speaking Of Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1980.

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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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• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.166, Macmillan

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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

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• No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Cosmos

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8420, Delphi Classics

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• If you want to change the world, be that change.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Volunteer, World, Want

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• One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Choices

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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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