Zach Anner Quotes

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be troubled by that. I'll probably just become more myself.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"