To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
They can conquer who believe they can.
The average person thinks he isn't.