Quote by Lewis Carroll

“if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were…

— Lewis Carroll

“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it…

— Lewis Carroll

“you can only be what you are and can never be what you aren't otherwise you will not be who you are”

— Shri Lildharrie

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.”

— Nina LaCour

“I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.”

— Sherry Thomas

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s.”

— Kelly Creagh

“Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.”

— robert m drake

“Always be yourself. There is nothing else you can be. How can you be not yourself? How could you be something else than what…

— Helena Kalivoda

“People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.”

— Meljean Brook