Delia Ephron Quotes

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I don't care about anything but what I want to do. You can't worry about what else is happening out there. You have to be true to yourself.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

I'm not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I'm doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.

I know I must be true to myself.

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.