Suze Orman Quotes

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

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.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I come out of real life.

I have faced up to what I am.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

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.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

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.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.