Ralph Marston Quotes

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

My life is my message.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

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

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

Live from the heart of yourself

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

When you are yourself, there is no wrong and there is no right, because being authentic and true to who you are and owning it is all anyone could ever ask of you.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to 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.