Own Your Truth Quotes

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”

“Success is about staying true to who you are”

“You are a masterpiece of your own life, make sure to paint yourself in the colors you love.”

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you.”

“It's not about looking tough. It's about being real, even when it's uncomfortable.”

“The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.”

“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

“Be yourself, but always your better self.”

“Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

“You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are.”

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas, and focusing on the essentials”

“To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like saying, ‘I want to be Einstein.’ It’s not realistic. You’ve got to be yourself”

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”

“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

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

“Your work should be a reflection of who you are”

“This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

“Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.”

“It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.”

“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

“I didn’t follow the rules - I made my own”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.”

“Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.”

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

“Wanting to be someone you're not is the waste of the person you are.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.”

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.”

“If I want to be free, I've got to be me. Not the me you think I should be. Not the me I think my wife thinks I should be. If I want to be free, I've got to be me. So I better know who me is.”

“Relationships come and go. The only thing permanent is who you are.”

“I’ve always done what I wanted to do, not what others expected”

“A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you.”

“A person's work is a portrait of themselves.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”