We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts. (Quote by - Bud Miller)

Men whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are. (Quote by - Alice Walker)

There is just one life for each of us: our own. (Quote by - Euripides)

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. (Quote by - Sylvia Townsend Warner)

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. (Quote by - Georgie Anne Geyer)

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. (Quote by - Sally Field)

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. (Quote by - Alex Haley)

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it. (Quote by - Sophocles)

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. (Quote by - George Burns)

When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time. (Quote by - Grace Murray Hopper)

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. (Quote by - Peggy Fleming)

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

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. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Sir, I would rather be right than be President. (Quote by - Henry Clay)

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)