Giorgio Armani Quotes

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position to make a mistake.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.

I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.

A lot of Asian girls love being basic because it's safe. But the thing is, a lot of my fans are those girls, and they want to be bolder, but there's no one they could look up to and be like, 'It's OK to be that way.'

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.