Mary Karr Quotes

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

I've always been Carlos Vela - sincere, original and true to myself.

I want to be true to who I am.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I have to be myself.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

I have to stay true to who I am.

I'm just going to do what I do and be who I am.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

As long as you stay true to yourself and to who you are, you ain't in nobody's way.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

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