We are all born equal, yet different in our own ways. We all thrive to stand out in the world in one way or another. However some loose themselves when they aren't being who they really are. That is the first step to becoming better than what you are now.
"No man could be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else." - Orsen Marden.
Avoid following a crowd. Be an engine, not a caboose. As Herman Melville wrote: "it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Average people would rather be wrong than be different. We relinquish three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Confority is the jailer of satisfaction and the enemy of growth.
Ask yourself, "If I try to be like him, who will be like me? If I'm not me, who will I be?" The more you develop your potential, the less you will become like someone else. Trying to be like somone else is self-defeating. One of your main purposes in life is to give birth to yourself. As long as you're trying to be like someone else, the best you can ever be is number two.
We can't reach our destiny taking another person's road. He who never walks except where he sees another person's tracks will make no new discoveries. "Do not follow where the path may lead--go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else" -Walt Disney
You can't be common. The common goes nowhere. You must be uncommon to be a champion. Your responsibility is not to remake yourself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. Don't compromise yourself...its all you've got.
"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess." - Samuel Johnson
Don't let your life be a continual struggle to be what you are not, and to do what you should not.
