Martina Navratilova Quotes

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

You always have to stay true to yourself.

Some actors have to make a choice. If they have the opportunity to become these huge megastars, making millions and millions of dollars and have to live a lie, that's a choice they have to make. Not that I would ever be a big star, but I just had to live my life the way I saw fit.

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

I play my life straight - the way I see it. I'm grateful to audiences for watching me and for enjoying what I do - but I'm not one of those who believe that a successful entertainer is made by the public, as is so often said.

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

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Be who you are in every situation.

Most people are other people.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.