"Be yourself; no base imitator of another,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.”
“Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.”
“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”
More on Self Reliance
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
“I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.”