Betty White Quotes

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

You can't really go wrong as long as you're true to yourself.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

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

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

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

I do my best to be true to who I am.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.

The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.