Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.

I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible.

I don't try to be someone I'm not.

Don't imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don't bother about what others say. It is nobody else's business. Don't bother about what churches say, organizations say - listen to your own heart.

Don't live your life to please other people.

Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

I don't try to be somebody I'm not.

I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

I am who I am. I don't try to be something I'm not.