Oscar Wilde Quotes

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The way I live is really me.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

It's not easy to always be yourself.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

My lesson would be to not sell yourself to anybody else and stay true to yourself.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I want to be myself otherwise what's the point.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.