Joyce Meyer Quotes

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I didn't become successful until I became myself

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

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

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

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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.

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.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

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.

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.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

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