Andrew Carnegie Quotes

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

Be yourself & you can be anything.

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?

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.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

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.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

You change the world by being yourself.

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

I don't want to be somebody else.

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?

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

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

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

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.