Martha Graham Quotes

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

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.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.