Self-Expression

(339 votes)   I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(281 votes)   Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(259 votes)   I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(169 votes)   I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(111 votes)   Once a person says, ''This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do,'' it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott
American Author, Speaker, Trainer

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(94 votes)   Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine
American Author

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(91 votes)   You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.

John Peers
American Businessman, President of Logical Machine

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(90 votes)   We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.

Swami Ramdas

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(89 votes)   A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(85 votes)   We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

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(83 votes)   Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

George Gurdjieff
1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer

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(80 votes)   Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(74 votes)   Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you

Source Unknown

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(65 votes)   I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show [Star Trek: The Next Generation]. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

Brent Spiner
1960-, American Actor

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(65 votes)   It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland
1891-1986, American Writer

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