Bernard Williams Quotes

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

Be yourself & you can be anything.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

Be that self which one truly is.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Everyone should just be exactly who they are.

Just be authentic and be you.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

Me, I'm trying to sound like me. I don't be trying to sound like somebody.