Being Yourself famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.
-- Adam Lambert -
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
-- Aidan Chambers -
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
-- Alan Alda -
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-- Albert Einstein -
Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
-- Aliza Sherman -
Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
-- Aliza Sherman -
At the core of your Heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
-- Amit Ray -
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
-- Anais Nin -
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
-- Anais Nin -
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.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
-- Andrej Pejic -
Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.
-- Andres Iniesta -
You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
-- Andrew Davies -
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
-- Andrew Mason -
Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
-- Andy Cohen -
We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
-- Anita Moorjani -
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
-- Anne Hathaway -
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
-- Anthony de Mello -
There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
-- Anthony Rapp -
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
-- Antonio Machado -
A soulmate is someone you can completely be yourself with. Someone with whom you share unconditional love and when you look into each other's eyes, you know that you are home.
-- Arielle Ford -
Overall the theme is about never giving in... not letting anyone tell you what to do or take anything away from you. Always being yourself, whatever that may be. The content obviously takes a darker and romantic approach to relationships about love and loss, as well as overcoming adversity in everyday life. Generally, just being tough and standing up for what you believe.
-- Ashley Purdy -
In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
-- Ashley Purdy -
You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
-- Audre Lorde -
I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
-- Avril Lavigne -
The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.
-- Ayrton Senna -
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.
-- Ayrton Senna -
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
-- B. B. King -
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
-- Barbara Cook -
Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what you feel, even when it may be diametrically opposed to everyone eles's opinion. You may be called the Devil Incarnate. You may feel like cow pies are being thrown at you. Sometimes that is part of being true to yourself.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!
-- Bella Thorne -
My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
-- Bellamy Young -
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
-- Ben Quayle -
Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.
-- Ben Quayle -
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell -
As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.
-- Beverly Engel -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.
-- Beverly Engel -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
-- Bobby Brown -
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
-- Bono -
The most political thing you can do is be yourself
-- Boy George -
I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
-- Bradford Cox -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
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 -
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 -
Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
-- Carl Rogers -
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
-- Caroline Leavitt -
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 -
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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 -
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 -
Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
-- Chris Pratt -
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 -
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.
-- Christina Perri -
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
-- Clarice Lispector -
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. -
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 -
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
-- Coco Chanel -
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
-- Coco Chanel -
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
-- Confucius -
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 -
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 -
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
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 -
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 -
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
-- Danielle LaPorte
