Being Yourself Quotes
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. - John Mason
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. - Julius Charles
If you don’t like my words, don’t listen. If you don’t like my appearance, don’t look. If you don’t like my actions, turn your head; It’s as simple as that. - Anonymous
There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
I never wanted to be different; I just wanted to be me. - Anonymous
Most people are other people.Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
Originality is a by product of sincerity. - Marianne Moore
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. - Oscar Wilde
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. - Oscar Wilde
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. - Anonymous
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - Anonymous
If we cannot be ourselves, there is no need for a mirror.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. - Anonymous
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. - Raymond Hull
The greatest success is being yourself. - Anonymous
We are betrayed by what is false within. - George Meredith
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. - James Matthew Barrie
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
You are what you think about all day long.- Dr. Robert Schuller
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me. - Jose Ortega Gasset
I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. - John Mayer
Enjoy who you are. Don’t hate yourself for what you aren’t.- Anonymous
Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself. - Anonymous
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Anonymous
There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. - André Berthiaume
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Anonymous
Why live to please others? I mean, it’s your life. If you aren’t happy with it, what’s the use in living? - Anonymous
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. - Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. - John Morley
“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. - Tom Masson
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. - François
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. - Desiderius Erasmus
Man would be “otherwise.” That’s the essence of the specifically human. - Antonio Machado
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Gabrielle
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. - Louis Kronenberger
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. - Homer J Simpson
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - François
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
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. - Michel Eyquem
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
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. - Walter Kaufmann
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
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
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
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence
You are a time millionaire for a rich life invest wisely. - Richard Andrews
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. - Evan Esar
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. - Shirley Maclaine
Love yourself first and everything falls into line. - Lucille Ball
When we seek to discover the best in others, we some how bring out the best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere. - Ronald Reagan
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. - Francis Bacon
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. - Zig Ziglar
What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me. - Dave Matthews Band
Know that you yourself are a miracle. - Norman Vincent Peale
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. - Anonymous
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - Anonymous
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? - Anonymous
I’ve worked hard to get what little self-esteem I have, and I refuse to let you take it from me. - Anonymous
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. - David Carradine
“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. - Anonymous
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? - Fanny Brice
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. - Charles R. Brown
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. - Mahatma Gandhi
Originality is a by-product of sincerity. - Anonymous
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Anonymous
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Anonymous
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - Anonymous
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. - Anonymous
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. - Anonymous