Parker Palmer Quotes

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.