Haim Ginott Quotes

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

I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I have to be myself.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

The way I live is really me.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I only want to be myself.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.