Seth Godin Quotes

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

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

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.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

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.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Learn what you are and be such.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.