Own Your Truth Quotes
Every man who trims himself to fit the room eventually disappears into it. Standing fully behind who you are is rare, and rare is powerful. This Potential path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on being unapologetically yourself. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
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“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”
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“It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.”
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“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.”
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“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
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“You are a masterpiece of your own life, make sure to paint yourself in the colors you love.”
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“Relationships come and go. The only thing permanent is who you are.”
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“Wanting to be someone you’re not is the waste of the person you are.”
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“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
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“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.”
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“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
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“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”
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“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
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“To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like saying, ‘I want to be Einstein.’ It’s not realistic. You’ve got to be yourself”
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“The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are.”
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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
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“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.”
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
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“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
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“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.”
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
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“You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.”
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“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
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“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.”
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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
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“Be yourself, but always your better self.”
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“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
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“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else.”
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“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
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“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”
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“Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
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“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.”
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“Your work should be a reflection of who you are”
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“Success is about staying true to who you are”
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“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”
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“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
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