To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.


- Judy Garland

Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?


- Oliver James

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

- Billie Holiday

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Howard Thurman

If a man loses 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.

- Henry David Thoreau

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward