Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

Flaws are really interesting.

I just want to find my individuality.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.