William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

My personality is that I like to express myself, and that is not something I will look to change.

I always have to be me.

I can only be me!