100+ Being Yourself Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Thinking, Issues

Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

- Beverly Engel

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Powerful, Thinking

Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

- Beverly Engel

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Hurt, Speaking Up, Mistreat

Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

- Beverly Engel

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Unique, Imperfection

Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.

- Beverly Engel

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Strong Women, Self Esteem

It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.

- Beverly Engel

source: Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.52, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Being Yourself, Important, Looks

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

- Bill Rancic

topic: Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work, Gut Instinct

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Personality, Rules Of Life, Knowing Oneself

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

- Bliss Carman

source: Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

topic: Being Yourself, Desire, Followers

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!

- Bo Sanchez

source: FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010

topic: Being Yourself, Race, Be Who You Are, Difficult Things

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

- Bobby Brown

topic: Being Yourself, Simplicity, Inspire, Just Being You

Be humble. Be yourself.

- Bobby Green

topic: Being Yourself, Humble, Mma

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

- Bono

topic: Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself, Just Being You, Great Respect

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

- Boy George

topic: Being Yourself, Political

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

- Bradford Cox

topic: Being Yourself, Struggle, Tired

You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

- Brandi Chastain

source: "The Question-Driven Life" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

topic: Soccer, Being Yourself, Team, Playing Soccer

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

- Brian Molko

topic: Being Yourself, Individuality, Proud

A lot of people forget that their individuality is what makes them so special. Growing up, there's a lot of pressure to be normal. but normal isn't as fun as being yourself. And it's those things about you that really draw people to you.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Being Yourself, Growing Up, Fun

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Being Yourself, Growing Up, Fun

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

- Brooke Burke

topic: Being Yourself, Dating, Important

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Being Yourself, Thinking, Lessons, Think For Yourself

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Being Yourself, Real, Thinking, Think For Yourself

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Being Yourself, Love You, Self Love

I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

- Cameron Dokey

topic: Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Being Yourself, Sacrifice, Men

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

- Candy Darling

source: Candy Darling (2015). “Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar”, p.58, Open Road Media

topic: Being Yourself, Matter, Morality, Always Be Yourself

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

- Carl Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Yourself

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

- Caroline Leavitt

source: Caroline Leavitt (2007). “Girls in Trouble: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

topic: Being Yourself, Able, Imagine

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

- Carson Kressley

source: "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

topic: Being Yourself, Growing Up, Kids

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Being Yourself

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

- Charles R. Brown

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Light, White Light, Colors Of The Rainbow

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

- Cherie Lunghi

topic: Being Yourself, Women, Keys, Happy Woman

Be yourself is all that you can do.

- Chris Cornell

topic: Being Yourself

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

- Chris Pratt

topic: Being Yourself, Magazines, Stuff, Just Be Yourself

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

- Christina Grimmie

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Being Yourself, Stupid, Dumb

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

- Christina Perri

topic: Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Needs, Love Yourself More

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

- Clarice Lispector

source: Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

topic: Being Yourself, Strange

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you

- Clifton Collins, Jr.

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Being Yourself, Doors, People

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

- Clive Barker

source: FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 19, 2013

topic: Being Yourself, Kings, Stars, My Own World

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Being Yourself, Moments, Kids Inspirational, Always Be Yourself

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking, Just Being You, I Think Of You

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

- Confucius

source: Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Happiness, Being Yourself, Truth

I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

- Cotton Fitzsimmons

topic: Being Yourself, Philosophy, Winning, Always Be Yourself

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

- Curtis Jackson

topic: Being Yourself, Moving, People, Board Meetings

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Being Yourself, Discovery, Finding Yourself

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

topic: Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration, Peace And Quiet

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Being Yourself, Self, Dare

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Being Yourself, Attitude, Bad Day, Long Term, Life Attitude

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

- Dan Marino

topic: Girl, Sports, Being Yourself, Getting Married

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

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: Being Yourself, World, Remember

Follow your own star!

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Being Yourself, Stars, Inspire

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

- Daphne Guinness

topic: Being Yourself, Believe, Marketing

I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.

- Darren Criss

topic: Being Yourself, Badass, People

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

- Dave Pelzer

topic: Moving On, Being Yourself, Mistake, Pick Yourself Up, Inspirational Moving On

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

- Dave Ramsey

topic: Happiness, Being Yourself, People

Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.

- David Archuleta

topic: Being Yourself, Firsts, Remember

The best thing you can do to set yourself apart is just be yourself. If you're fake, you know people find out who you are later, it's like, 'Well that's not who we thought you were.' Being yourself is where you feel most comfortable and people get, you know, they feel that connection the best. That's the best way to go. You always have to be yourself.

- David Archuleta

topic: Being Yourself, People, Fake

When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.

- David Belle

topic: Being Yourself, Moving, Style

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

- David Carradine

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself, Best Poetry, True To Oneself

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

- David Morrell

topic: Being Yourself, Writing, Voice, This Is Me

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Mother, Being Yourself, Gratitude

Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

- Deborah Harkness

source: Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

topic: Mother, Being Yourself, Dna, Infuriating

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Spiritual, Being Yourself, Ego, Social Interaction, Self Conscious

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Being Yourself, Mind, Well Being

Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Being Yourself, Real, Philosophical, Social Status, Complete Freedom

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

- Dennis Potter

topic: Being Yourself, Order, About Yourself

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

- Dennis Wholey

topic: Being Yourself, Feelings, Not Being Yourself

What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Being Yourself, Style, Together, Personal Style

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,

- Doc Watson

topic: Being Yourself, People, Wise People

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

- Doc Watson

topic: Being Yourself, Trying, Ems

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Think For Yourself

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

- Dominika Cibulkova

source: "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

topic: Being Yourself, Court, Difficult

Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

- Don Coppersmith

topic: Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Love You

You're unique, amazing Like no one else You have the exclusive On being yourself.

- Don Coppersmith

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Unique

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

- Donald Glover

topic: Being Yourself, Rap

Be yourself.Â An original is always worth more than a copy.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Being Yourself, Copies

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe, Subtle Atheist, Describe Yourself

Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

- Douglas Harding

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Heart

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Shapes

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Being Yourself, People, Mind

The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

- Drake

topic: Life, Girl, Being Yourself

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

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Motivational, Being Yourself, Important, Animal Liberation

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Challenges, Self Loving

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

- E. L. Konigsburg

topic: Being Yourself, Hardest

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity â€” which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Being Yourself, Integrity, Real

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Authenticity, Being Authentic, New Earth

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Being Yourself, Thinking, Deeds, Injured

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

- Edith Sitwell

source: "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

topic: Being Yourself, Successful, Secret, Pekingese, Outer Appearance

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

- Edwin Bailey Elliott

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Yourself

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

- Eileen Caddy

source: Eileen Caddy (2017). “God Spoke to Me”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

topic: Being Yourself, Past, Hands

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

Accept your own and be yourself!

- Elijah Muhammad

source: Elijah Muhammad (2008). “Everything Was Going So Well...Then We Accepted Jesus: : How Christianity Deceived the Black Nation”, p.113, Elijah Muhammad Books

topic: Being Yourself, Accepting

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

topic: Being Yourself, Chaos, Chaos In The World

And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

- Eminem

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

Be yourself, take control of your life.

- Emma Bunton

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Control Of Your Life, Take Control

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.