Gore Vidal Quotes

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

Rise above yourself.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

One creates oneself.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I invented myself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.