Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I can only be who I am.

I'm totally myself.

I can't not be who I am.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

You should never give up your inner self.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you as a vessel.

I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.