Being Yourself Quotes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be,
you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

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

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Just be yourself and wear deodorant.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

Accept your own and be yourself!

Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.