Right Quotes - Page 6

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Rabindranath Tagore

While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.

Martial

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

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.

Helen Merrell Lynd

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

Geoffrey Fisher

Keep your promises to yourself.

David Harold Fink

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

Sylvester Stallone

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

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.

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.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

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.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.

William Hazlitt

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

James Russell Lowell

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Henry David Thoreau

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Mahalia Jackson

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.

William Ellery Channing

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Saint Francis de Sales

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Joseph Campbell

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

Stephen McKenna

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.

Caroline Stephen

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.

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.

No matter where I run I meet myself there.

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.

Lorraine Hansbury

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

Ugo Betti

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

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.

Madeleine Albright

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

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!

The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.

Emma Dunham Kelley

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.

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.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Molière

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.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

What one man does another fails to do what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

Anonymous

Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

Frederick the Great

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

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?

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