Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

I don't want to be somebody else.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

I can't be anybody but myself.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

I don't want to be someone else.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.