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At the end, entrepreneurship is not about wearing expensive suits and earning a lot of money. It is all about being true to yourself, to your values in life. Your dreams.
Sep 10, 2025
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?
Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.
Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don't come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.
If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.
When you hear that something can’t be done, ignore that advice and push forward.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others.
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.
You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.
You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.