Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

I have to stay true to who I am.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.

I can't be passionate about something or really give myself to something if I don't know it's a hundred percent authentic to who I am.

You've gotta stay true to yourself, stay who you are.

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Being popular isn't everything; being true to yourself is!

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Always stay true to yourselves.

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.