Richelle Mead Quotes

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

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 don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

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

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

It's such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.