“Insist on yourself; Never imitate... Every Great man is unique.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
Sam Houston
“Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.”
Mark Grant
“There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him”
Benjamin Franklin
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius