Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

Learn what you are and be such.

Figure out who you are.

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.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I don't want to change anything about myself.

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 can't do anything else apart from be myself.

But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

I'm trying not to change.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.