Mattie Stepanek Quotes

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

If we do not speak with our own opinion, we prevaricate with God and our conscience.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.