Be Yourself Quotes

~Wonderful Be Yourself Quotes~

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." Raymond Hull

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." William Shakespeare

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naïve.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself." Ralph Ellison

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." Judy Garland

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it." Robert Brault

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

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep." Samuel Johnson

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." John Morley

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

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

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." Shirley MacLaine

"Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." Harvey Fierstein

"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not." Henri Frederic Amiel

"I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world.  The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything." George Gissing

"There is just one life for each of us:  our own." Euripides

"Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth." Benjamin Disraeli

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." Kongzi

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." Shakti Gawain

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Ride the energy of your own unique spirit." Gabrielle Roth

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs

"The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity." Tony Robbins

"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag." Author Unknown

"It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you." Dodinsky

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

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." Johann von Goethe

"When one is pretending the entire body revolts." Anaïs Nin

"It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved." Robert Brault

"We are betrayed by what is false within." George Meredith

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde

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

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do." Eric Hoffer

"Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine." James Poland

"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin." André Berthiaume

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are." Jim Morrison

"Be open.  And then the truth follows." Gangaji

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

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." Irene C. Kassorla

"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves." Friedrich Nietzsche

"You were born an original.  Don't die a copy." John Mason

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." Andre Gide

"Why try to be someone you're not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required." Robert Brault

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." Oscar Wilde