Cornel West Quotes

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

I'm trying not to change.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Learn what you are and be such.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I don't want to change anything about myself.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Year by year I learn more about myself, and I think that confidence and honesty and just really being true to yourself is probably the most beautiful thing that you can do for yourself and the people around you.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.