Confucius Quotes

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Figure out who you are.

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Know thyself.

I am happy with the roles I play.

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

There are so many trans kids who are struggling with who they are. I want them to know that one day, they will find the light. No matter what, we have to be who we are. Once you love and accept yourself, then others will slowly do so as well.

I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.

I don't want to be someone else.

I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.