Martha Graham Quotes

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

When I go out and talk to people about how unique they are as a human being and that there's a niche for them that they need to follow through on for their lives, it's what I truly believe in.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?