Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

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

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

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

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

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.

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

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

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

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

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

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.

I want people to see just who I am.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.