Lenny Kravitz Quotes

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

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

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

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

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

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

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

I don't find it distracting to be me.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

You have to be honest about who you are.

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

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.