John Lennon Quotes

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

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

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

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

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.