Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

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

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

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.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Accepting all that you are will lead you to live your best life and will allow you to be free and your true authentic self.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going.

You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

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.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.