Todd Rundgren Quotes

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I just look to be myself. I'm not trying to be nobody. I'm just trying to be the first Zion.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!

I don't want to be someone else.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's