Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
“If you’d have a servant that you like, serve yourself.”
“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”
“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father’s or his mother’s or his neighbor’s instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.”
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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