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The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much. (Quote by - Zen saying)
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gilman)
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. (Quote by - Constance Fenimore Woolson)
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. (Quote by - David Graydon)
Everyone has a right to his own course of action. (Quote by - Moliere)
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
We do not write as we want but as we can. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus. (Quote by - Louise Nevelson)
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. (Quote by - Martha Grimes)
Every man must get to heaven his own way. (Quote by - Frederick the Great)
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done. (Quote by - Jacqueline Briskin)
Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us. (Quote by - Pindar)
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny. (Quote by - Smiley Blanton)
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. (Quote by - George Orwell)
The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned. (Quote by - Japanese proverb)
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. (Quote by - Winifred Holtby)
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
We don't see many fat men walking on stilts. (Quote by - Bud Miller)
Men whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
There is just one life for each of us: our own. (Quote by - Euripides)
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. (Quote by - Sylvia Townsend Warner)
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. (Quote by - Georgie Anne Geyer)
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. (Quote by - Sally Field)
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. (Quote by - Alex Haley)
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it. (Quote by - Sophocles)
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. (Quote by - George Burns)
When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time. (Quote by - Grace Murray Hopper)
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. (Quote by - Peggy Fleming)
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Sir, I would rather be right than be President. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need. (Quote by - Marsha Sinetar)
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us. (Quote by - Nena O'Neil)
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose. (Quote by - Caroline Stephen)
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Be sure you are right, then go ahead. (Quote by - David Crockett)
I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame, you just do it. (Quote by - Doris Lund)
Heaven itself has ordained the right. (Quote by - George Washington)
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage. (Quote by - Barbara Lazear Ascher)
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. (Quote by - Sonia Johnson)
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
That suit is best that best suits me. (Quote by - John Clark)
Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. (Quote by - Joan L. Brannon)
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? (Quote by - Henry James)
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little? (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say. (Quote by - Violette Leduc)
If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." (Quote by - Katharine Whitehorn)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. (Quote by - Greer Garson)
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general. (Quote by - Lorraine Hansbury)
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. (Quote by - William James)
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Quote by - Janis Joplin)
No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.(Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will. (Quote by - Stephen McKenna)
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. (Quote by - George Crabbe)
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. (Quote by - Giacomo Leopardi)
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We are betrayed by what is false within. (Quote by - George Meredith)
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. (Quote by - Richard Wright)
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life. (Quote by - Arthur Christopher Benson)
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose. (Quote by - Marcia Wieder)
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. (Quote by - Agnes Whistling Elk)
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have! (Quote by - Kathy Ireland)
We only do well the things we like doing. (Quote by - Colette)
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. (Quote by - Horace)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful! (Quote by - Willie Pastrano)
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
It is possible to be different and still be all right. (Quote by - Anne Wilson Schaef)
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. (Quote by - Epictetus)
I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body. (Quote by - Clint Hurdle)
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do. (Quote by - Rosalynn Carter)
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
Do not wish to be anything but what you are. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. (Quote by - Christian Furchtegott Gellert)
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. (Quote by - Naomi Wolf)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. (Quote by - George E. Woodberry)
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. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. (Quote by - Carrie Chapman Catt)
Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do. (Quote by - Jinger Heath)
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger. (Quote by - Persian proverb)
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. (Quote by - Diane Sawyer)
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. (Quote by - Charles R. Brown)
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. (Quote by - Erasmus)
We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing. (Quote by - Martial)
Do what you love, the money will follow. (Quote by - Marsha Sinetar)
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery! (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city. (Quote by - William A. Hulbert)
Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven't found your soul. (Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. (Quote by - Julius Charles Hare)
What really matters is what you do with what you have. (Quote by - Shirley Lord)
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. (Quote by - Roscoe Conkling)
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. (Quote by - Mahalia Jackson)
In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?" (Quote by - Zusya of Hanipoli)
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way. (Quote by - Milton Lomask)
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become. (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities. (Quote by - George H. Bender)
No matter where I run, I meet myself there. (Quote by - Dorothy Fields)
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. (Quote by - Tillie Olsen)
Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hawkes)
The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence. (Quote by - Euripides)
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Quote by - Harper Lee)
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Do what thy manhood bids thee do. (Quote by - Sir Richard Burton)
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. (Quote by - David Riesman)
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. (Quote by - Janet Erskine Stuart)
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Quote by - Edward Everett Hale)
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more. (Quote by - Gail Hamilton)
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Learn what you are, and be such. (Quote by - Pindar)
Keep your promises to yourself. (Quote by - David Harold Fink)
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
Might was the measure of right. (Quote by -Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Let me listen to me and not to them. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. (Quote by - Sylvester Stallone)
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. (Quote by - John Dewey)
If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. (Quote by - Sylvester Stallone)
The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong; If you go to the left you are sure to be right, If you go to the right you are wrong. (Quote by - Henry Erskine)
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
Two wrongs can never make a right. (Quote by - English proverb)
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality. (Quote by - Jay Chiat)
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. (Quote by - Sir Archibald Wavell)
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me. (Quote by - Debbi Fields)
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. (Quote by - Emma Dunham Kelley)
For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. (Quote by - Rev. Frederick William Faber)
To every man according to his ability. (Quote by - Bible)
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. (Quote by - Margaret Anderson)
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. (Quote by - Francis Hutcheson)
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. (Quote by - Rollo May)
The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? (Quote by - Edith Sitwell)
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? (Quote by - Fanny Brice)
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere. (Quote by - Madeleine Albright)
There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. (Quote by - Evelyn Mandel)
The hole and the patch should be commensurate. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
One truth is clear, Whatever is is right. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is. (Quote by - Angelo Patri)
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. (Quote by - Plato)
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. (Quote by - Saint Vincent Pallotti)
I want to do it because I want to do it. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing. (Quote by - Leontyne Price)
Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do. (Quote by - Bette Midler)
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
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. (Quote by - e. e. cummings)
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. (Quote by - Stephen King)
Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Quote by - Eva Le Gallienne)
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. (Quote by - Lucy Stone)
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. (Quote by - Ugo Betti)
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. (Quote by - Dr. Martha Friedman)
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages. (Quote by - Hazel Henderson)
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)
This above all: to thine own self be true. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart, not the head. (Quote by - Diana, Princess of Wales)
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller III)
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. (Quote by - Carlos Castaneda)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. (Quote by - Helen Merrell Lynd)
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. (Quote by - William Styron)
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is. (Quote by - Nicholas Grimoald)
What's important is finding out what works for you. (Quote by - Henry Moore)
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. (Quote by - Elizabeth Prentiss)
