Sydney J. Harris Quotes

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Be that self which one truly is.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

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.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Learn what you are and be such.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

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.