Own Your Truth Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Escape competition through authenticity.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself believe.”

“The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: ‘He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.’”

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

“I am chasing a guy. The man I am chasing is the better version of myself, the man I am capable of becoming, the man I was put on this earth to be.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“Never be yourself if you can make yourself into something better through your conscious actions. You are what you do.”

“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

“Be content to seem what you really are.”

“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.”

“Always play to the size of your heart, not to the size of your audience.”

“The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”

“What a man is in the sight of God, so much he is, and no more.”

“The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find.”

“The problem most people make with their media presence is they’re trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.”

“If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.”

“We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself.” What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typical – in a thousand ways, it pulls at you. Don’t let it happen.”

“Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.”

“Remember the to-do list but don’t forget the to-be list.”

“Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.”

“When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.”

“We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions.”

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.”

“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”

“No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done.”

“The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.”

“The punchline of life is not wealth, it’s not fame, it’s not admiration, it’s how you feel about yourself when you’re by yourself.”

“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.”

“What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.”

“Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.”

“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

“You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.”

“A man’s goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.”

“In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.”

“You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.”