You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

I’m not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good.

Give up trying to be good at stuff that makes you feel bad.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Stop trying to impress people.
Impress yourself.
Stretch yourself.
Test yourself.
Be the best version of you that you can be.

Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb).

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Be-don't try to become.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good