Joyce Meyer Quotes

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

It's very, very important to be yourself, and that's the kind of message that I want to get across in my character as well. On TV, that's the message that I want to get across to fans of all ages, really: To get somewhere, you just have to be yourself. Don't ever change for anyone.

The secret to success is to be yourself.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.