Quotes about being yourself (2023)

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These quotes about yourself will help you determine your own identity and live the life you desire.

How many times each day do you want to say one thing and say the other instead because you're worried about what others might think?

How often do you wake up in the morning with an idea in your head of what you want to achieve, only to do something else due to social pressures or personal fears?

No life, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you can't learn to love yourself and be yourself.

It may seem harsh, but great people throughout history who have also struggled to find their identities. Just as they rose to the challengeYou too can learn to be yourself.

Be yourself quotes

Be yourself, take nothing from anyone and never let yourself be taken alive.

Gerhard way

You have to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It shines through if you're not careful.

Jack Harbaugh

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Bernhard Baruch

Follow your inner moonlight; Don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

Being yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make something else of you is the greatest achievement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you really have; When you take everything off, that's all you have, so always be yourself.

Al Roker

You cannot control all of the events that happen to you, but you can choose not to be reduced by them.

Maja Angelou

All you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them and some will not like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

You can't change what you are, only what you do.

Philipp Pullman

They are they. Well, isn't that pleasant?

Dr. Seuss

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

Coco Chanel

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy garland

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

To be none but yourself in a world that does its best day and night to make you everyone else is to fight the hardest fight a human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

God gave you a face and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

The individual always had to fight in order not to be overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try, you will often be lonely and sometimes scared. But no price is too high for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where is your will to be crazy?

Jim Morrison

If you can't be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Most people are other people. Her thoughts are the opinions of others, her life an imitation, her passions a quote.

Oscar Wilde

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but to help them reveal the best version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing is more terrifying, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

I will not hide my likes or dislikes. I will trust so much that what is deep is sacred that I will do strong before the sun and the moon what pleases me and makes my heart happy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is this man who hides one thing in his heart and says another.

Homer

If you can't love yourself, how the hell are you going to love someone else?

Rupa

They can't scare me if I scare them first.

Lady Gaga

Find out who you areare and do it on purpose.

Dolly Parton

Don't obsess over trends. Don't make fashion your property, but you decide what you are, what you want to express through the way you dress and live.

Gianni Versace

An unfulfilled calling drains the color of a person's entire existence.

Balzac

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you become a general. If you become a monk, you become a pope.” Instead, I became a painter and ended up as a Picasso.

Picasso

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't let others intrude on their ideas of what they think they should be. A restricted identity is a miserable way to exist. Be yourself and live free. Trust that as you live true to yourself, you will attract people who will support and love you just as you are.

Jaeda deWalt

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But toRespectthe right to be different is perhaps even greater.

Gut

If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can't compare the economic benefit with art.

Kelly Liang

Learn to be what you are and learn to give up everything you are not with good grace.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never apologize for showing feelings. If you do, apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

If God had wanted me differently, he would have made me differently.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real life is often the life you don't lead.

Oscar Wilde

We all wear masks, and there comes a time when we can't take them off without removing some of our own skin.

André Berthiaume

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Other guidance

Given the unfortunate tackiness of the audience, it behooves you not to blend in.

Janeane Garofalo

Some people say you're on the wrong path when it's just your own path.

Angelina Jolie

How many of us are therefake facade? How many of us still pretend to be something we are not? Better yet, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

Katie McGarry

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what other people think.

Roy T. Bennett,The light in the heart

Shining your brightest light means being who you really are.

Roy T. Bennett

I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

Always be yourself, express yourself, believe in yourself, don't go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

You just have to be yourself and be full of confidence and courage.

Gabi Douglas

If you can just be yourself then you have to be original because there is no one like you.

Marc Newsom

It sounds so simple, but when you just be yourself, you are different from everyone else.

Toni Bennett

Being beautiful means being yourself. You don't have to be accepted by others. You have to accept yourself.

Bind Irwin

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people.

J. B. Priestley

Don't worry about what people say; Be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

Mariano Rivera

The secret toosuccessis to be yourself.

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S. Sreesanth

If you are content with just being yourself and not comparing or competing, you will respect everyone.

Lao Tzu

Don't accept anyone's definition of your life, define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Brian Tracy

Never apologize for being yourself.

Paolo Coelho

Our time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

You can't be afraid of your uniqueness and care less and less about what people think of you.

Robert Green

No one has ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Buckminster Fuller

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside of themselves for approval.

The epic

Don't think that in order to be someone you have to be like everyone else.

Nike

Don't let other people decide who you are.

Bob Goff

You change the world by being yourself.

Yoko Ono

Don't hunt people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - who really belong in your life - will come and stay with you.

Will Smith

If you see a mob doing something, you should be less likely to do it yourself, not more likely.

Paul Graham

A dead thing can swim with the current, but only a living thing can swim against it.

G.K. Chesterton

You, by being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves.

Mine

The imitator condemns himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world only wants your authentic truth.

Gabi Bernstein

Large groups are no place for bright minds.

Marine-Ravikant

The bravest act is still to think for yourself. Noisy.

Coco Chanel

Conformity is the jailer of liberty and the enemy of growth.

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John F. Kennedy

I don't pay any attention to praise or criticism from anyone. I just follow my own feeling.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Do not be afraid to be eccentric in your opinion, for every now accepted opinion was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Above all, be true to yourself.

William Shakespeare,Weiler

Basically, every human being knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a wonderfully picturesque piece of Diversity in Unity as it is ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They laugh at me for being different; I laugh at them because they are all the same.

Kurt Cobain

I would rather die after speaking my way than speak and live your way.

Socrates

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Appear as you are, be as you appear.

Rumi

I am not what happened to me, I am what I want to be.

Karl Jung

You want to be unusual among unusual people. Period.

David Goggins

Most contradictory of all is not to defy the crowd, but to think for yourself.

Peter Thiel

Only dead fish go with the current.

Derek Sivers

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and most importantly, to feel or not to feel. Whatever you are feeling is fine with them. This is what true love boils down to - letting a person be who they really are.

Jim Morrison

Don't water yourself down for any person or for any reason. you are enough Be uncompromising you.

Steve Mariboli

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Dolly Parton

Question your conscience; rather than public opinion.

Publius the Syrian

Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary where you can withdraw and be yourself at any time.

Herman Hesse

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself.

Bella Dorn

We hope these quotes about being yourself have inspired you to walk your own path.

It isnot always easybeing yourself, but part of that comes from learning to love and respect yourself for who you are. These sayings remind us that others have faced this battle with their self-esteem and the judgment of others and won!