Be Yourself

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

As a follow-up to Pleasing Everyone, read about the distinction between being of service to others, and being a "pleaser," at More about Pleasing Everyone.

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

When is Your Best Good Enough?

Quotes about Becoming Yourself

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Kindness

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Further reading: Drive Change

Practice Makes Perfect - Sometimes

Mistake Quotes

Quotes about Mistakes

Quotes about Life Lessons

Amazing Quotes to Live By

Pleasing Everyone

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

Further reading: Aesops Fable: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass

Need For Approval

Honor Yourself

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Success Quotes

Gandhi Quotes

Frustrated?

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Further reading: Stop Anger Before It Stops You

How to Think Positive

Attitude is Everything

Try

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Angel Ruiz

Read my article When is Your Best Good Enough?

Further reading: Choices

Habits

Do it

Try Quotes

Success Quotes

Regret Quotes