Friday, December 10

Be Yourself

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955


He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull


God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.  ~William Shakespeare


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 naïve.  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.  ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"


The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie


Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905


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


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  ~David Carradine


A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.  ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942


I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  ~Boris Pasternak


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ~e.e. cummings


Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750


Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.  ~Homer


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.  ~Tom Masson


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


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


Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel


I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world.  The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.  ~George Gissing


No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.  ~John Morley


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


Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.  ~Johann von Goethe


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


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


Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  ~Shakti Gawain


At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.  ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.  ~Marianne Moore


Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.  ~Samuel Johnson


If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.  ~Author Unknown


To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  ~Oscar Wilde


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.  ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774


It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We are betrayed by what is false within.  ~George Meredith


No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.  ~Oscar Wilde


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss


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


Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.  ~Eric Hoffer


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


All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.  ~Julius Charles Hare


We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.  ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps


An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.  ~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838


He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"


There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.  ~Samuel Johnson


You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.  ~Irene C. Kassorla


Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


You were born an original.  Don't die a copy.  ~John Mason


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.  ~Andre Gide


There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it.  If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp.  ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910


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 Eyquem de Montaigne


Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665


Man would be "otherwise."  That's the essence of the specifically human.  ~Antonio Machado


Individualism is rather like innocence:  There must be something unconscious about it.  ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954


Why try to be someone you're not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.  ~Kurt Vonnegut


One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.  ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882

Life Quotes

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Proverb

Never regret what made you smile. Just learn from the tears that followed.
Author Unknown

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel

There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Author Unknown

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Author Unknown

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lilly Tomlin

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Benjamin Franklin

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant

It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
Bill Gates

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse

I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Jalacy Hawkins)

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
Lin Yutang

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Douglas Adams

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Men deal with life, as children with their play
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William Cowper

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Jim Carrey

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
Anita Shreve

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right.
Unknown author

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim
Bertrand Russell

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
Willliam S. Burroughs

Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
Author Unknown

Saturday, December 4

Attitude Quotes



"Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."
Napolean Hill
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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright

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"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."
Swedish proverb


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"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."
Ancient Persian Saying


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"To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
Ancient Proverb


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"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."
Wilfred Peterson


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"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill."
Winston Churchill


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"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional."
John Amatt


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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
William M. Thackeray


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"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
James Truslow Adams


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"Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight."
Thomas Hardy


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"Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty."
Joseph Addison


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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"
Thomas Jefferson


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"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."
Leo Buscaglia


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"Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form."
Thomas Troward

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"One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault."
Source Unknown



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"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him."
Henry Ward Beecher

Success Quotes





"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein



"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep."
Greg Evans

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."
Albert Einstein

"Success, remember is the reward of toil."
Sophocles

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe 

"When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding."
Mack R. Douglas

"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."
Greg Evans


"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."
John R. Amos

Motivational Quotes

Motivations Xtreame Quotes




"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward




"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."
Romana L. Anderson



"May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
Irish Blessing



"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."


"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."


"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar"
William Shakespeare



"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
John Quincy Adams



"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Donald Laird



"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
Richard L. Evans



"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
Adel Bestavros





"Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson



"No one does anything from a single motive."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge



"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
Richard L. Evans



"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn"
Harriet Beecher Stowe



"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
Frank A. Clark



"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
Dwight David Eisenhower