Being Yourself Quotes

It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself. ~ Brooke Valentine

I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box ... I just wanted to be Nicki. ~ Nicki Minaj

There are no rules when it comes to being yourself. You're unlimited as long as you don't limit yourself. ~ Lisa Cimorelli

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun. ~ Kirko Bangz

Don't be afraid to be yourself and don't let anybody tell you that that's wrong. Because the best thing is you. ~ Willow Smith

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be. ~ Jen Wang

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

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself. ~ Robert Holden

I have always felt that putting emotions into words was an exercise in futility, they're often more complex than words can manage and it seems often impossible. And like an injustice to the emotions, like I will never have explained them well enough and it will just feel incomplete and wrong. Also I'm pretty sure you made me do this before heh.

All of that said, I shall do my best to manage this. You are incredibly passionate. Straightforward. Funny. I feel like such a god damn idiot spouting random adjectives but I don't know what else to do. O.O You are those things though and I love them. You see the world in a way I feel I can understand at least somewhat, a way many don't. You embrace things others try to stifle. You aren't ashamed of being yourself and yourself is wonderful. Kind and compassionate. You sure helped me and I think I helped you too, we connected on some issues even if our issues weren't the same. We... ugh, I can't do it, I can't distill something as complex, intricate, beautiful, amazing as YOU into mere words. But you are who you are and you stole my heart and I don't mind. I like it. I love you. Can't go wrong with someone that loves music and wants to have lotr snuggle fests!

I'm here darlingness. I just kept trying and trying to find the right words. It's difficult. NOT because I have anything less than the utmost massive lovelberry tree gem pie for you. It's just... emotions, y'know? They're hard to explain. o.o ~ Devouree

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

I groaned. "Next you're going to tell me to just be myself and everyone will love me, right?"
"Love might be too strong a word," Wilson retorted, dead pan. I snickered.
"I'm serious!" I argued, smiling in spite of myself. "All that stuff people say about just being yourself is complete–"
"Rubbish?"
"Yeah. Being yourself only works if you don't suck. If you do suck, definitely don't be yourself. ~ Amy Harmon

Being yourself is an old myth,
being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick ~ Srishti

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself. ~ Alex Mack

You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?"
"There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me - just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don't feel like they're mine. They're not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It's like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then when you open them up, there's a smaller doll inside, and you keep opening hollow dolls until eventually you get to the smallest one, and it's solid all the way through. But with me, I don't think there is one that is solid. They just keep getting smaller. ~ John Green

When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant. ~ Steve Martin

You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself. ~ Jenna Marbles

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? ~ Steve Maraboli

It's not about believing in yourself; it's about being yourself
take action!! ~ Shannon L. Alder

If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself. ~ Kristen Stewart

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist. ~ Billy Sherwood

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

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself. ~ Marilyn Manson

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul. ~ Jean Rhys

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself. ~ Maria Shriver

When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave. Yet, when you stop being yourself and pretend to be who you are not, there is a much bigger risk: the people who would accept and love you just as you are, may not accept you and leave. ~ Franco Santoro

It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"! ~ Mandy Hale

Being yourself is more important than being different. ~ Udai Yadla

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. ~ Meryl Streep

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

It's not easy being yourself because it can invite envy and attention. But if you hide your authentic self from the rest of the world, a unique life will pass you by. There is splendor in being true to yourself. ~ Margot Datz

That's being yourself. Chasing wherever inspiration goes, even if it's radically different from the thing that people know you as. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART

In this short lifetime,
Why not be --
True to your own voice,
Your own story,
Your own truths,
Your own style,
Beat and drum --
Instead of reflect the words,
Songs and march of another?
Why not use your soul's own
Unique language,
Instead of constantly try to toot something
Not true, suitable or intended
For your own instrument,
Painting,
Song,
Or story?

Why create an image you cannot produce?
And if you can create a brilliant mask,
How long will you really be able to hide your true soul
Behind it
Until its colors and plastic
Begin to fade and melt with
Time?

Do not speak about truth when there is no truth in you.
Do not speak about being yourself when you are trying hard to be someone else.
Do not keep crying about your pain when you you have no shame creating pain in others.
Do not step on truth, or someone else's truth, or someone who fights for truth --
And think there will be no repercussions;
For there is more danger in silence,
And for every action there will always be a reaction
Of opposite or equal measure.

Treasure integrity,
Treasure your own story and truths.
How will people remember you when you want to be an imitation?
How will people remember your voice when you want to sound like another?
Be so different that everybody will re ~ Suzy Kassem

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there. ~ Iris Murdoch

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me? ~ Elton John

Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Being yourself sounds like a saccharin prescription for how to make it in an aggressive culture but it's not as sweet as it sounds. It means not acting in a way that is false just to fit in. It's expressing your talent, values, and opinions in your style, defending your rights, and never sacrificing yourself respect. That is power. ~ Melinda Gates

Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be ~ Paulo Coelho

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself. ~ Michael Sam

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat. ~ Kim Cattrall

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. ~ Dennis Potter

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

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn. ~ Nikki Giovanni

I know that I would rather be shunned or laughed at for being me than have slime on my spine as a traitor to myself. ~ Gillian Duce

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

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Carrying confidence isn't being the person everyone likes, it's being yourself, regardless of who likes you. ~ Nikki Rowe

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive. ~ Lil B

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally. ~ Sandra Cisneros

Always be yourself, there's no one better! ~ Selena Gomez

I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.'
'You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a compliment.
'Well, I've had years of practice. ~ Kate Atkinson

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think. ~ Jenna Marbles

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God. ~ Edgar Cayce

Being yourself-that means being lots of different people. ~ Marty Rubin

Well, yeah. Aren't you? I want to destroy anyone who has hurt you for a dumb reason like just being yourself. What? Do we want the entire universe made up of people who are all clones of each other? How damn boring would that be? You know the expression that love makes the world go 'round? That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love. Because there is magic in diversity. Without the Celestes, the world wouldn't go 'round. Do you see that? ~ Jessica Park

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ~ Jane Austen

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time ... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent. ~ Kate Bosworth

Rather than putting your energy into being special, put your whole energy into being yourself. Just find yourself, because in trying to be special you are running further and further away from yourself. ~ Osho

I do understand! I understand what they do not, and that is you can only do with what you have. What God has given you. If you try to be anyone else, it is the worst thing that can happen because you cannot ever be them - and then you give up being you ~ Siri Mitchell

Never apologize for being yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ~ Frederick Douglass

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks. Always be yourself. ~ James Stewart

A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself! ~ Hayley Williams

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

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

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

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be. ~ Jimmy Dean

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self ~ Neil Strauss

Listen, I know there were days you wanted to die

when the sky was so clear
you'd stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for stars to shoot you
just so you could feel at home.

I know about the ways you misplaced all the right words,
stockpiled every important social cue you ever missed
from the first time you learned you were wrong,
waited to make it right
once everyone stopped watching.

I know you let them beat up your beauty in bed
because redemption was still alive in you, howling relentless, gathering strength.
Felt like ecstasy when they pounded it out of you in the hard dark.
Those days of dead weather
got all strung together
and they spoke for you,
wore you down to telling everyone here it was a good life
so you could run back into the wails of your windfight.

I know the parts of your past that haunt you the most
are the days you weren't being yourself,
and I know that's why most of your past haunts you.
There were so many who found you out,
and they were right.
You were good.

So
un-
numb. ~ Buddy Wakefield

HOME, which is the last floor for everyone. ~ Sushil Singh

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

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality. ~ Rihanna

I believe that you become yourself every single day of your life through your choices and how you think. And that's constantly changing every day ... You are constantly changing, evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences ... Being yourself means you think with your own mind, and you make your own choices and that makes you you. ~ Jenna Marbles

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

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself. ~ J.R. Rim

Trust that you are inspiring and capable of providing hope to one or millions of lives just by being yourself along your life journey. ~ Elaina Marie

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. ~ William Klein

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~ Samuel Johnson

I write because I'm free,
because I can,
because I will.
I write because I must,
because I'm breathing,
because I'd go crazy otherwise,
because it's who I am.
I write to make a statement,
to share my thoughts,
to discover myself,
to express my ideas.
But most of all, I write for future generations.
I write for love.
I write to inspire.
I write to encourage.
I write for me. ~ Nadege Richards

You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the "average" label. ~ Joel Osteen

I think being yourself - your true, entire self - is always going to feel like you're swimming upstream."

"Yeah," she said. "But if the last few years with you have been any indication, I think it also feels like taking your bra off at the end of the day. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future. ~ Paulo Coelho

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. ~ Frank Gehry

Why try to be like others if you're condemned to being yourself? Why laugh if, when you laugh, even your genuine happiness is false, since it is born of forgetting who you are? Why cry if you feel it's of no use, and if you cry not because tears console you but because it grieves you that they don't? ~ Fernando Pessoa

Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up. ~ Carrie Newcomer

i was so woried about wat i woud become in the future that i didnt realize i can be anything i want to be right now ~ Jomny Sun

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. ~ Miranda Lambert

Being yourself is far more important than the style of handbag you choose to carry. ~ Lisa Robinson

You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Little parts of my heart break off then, for Finn, for Ruby, for Charlie, for me, for all the ways we've let ourselves become who people think we should be instead of who we really are. ~ Meg Leder

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. ~ Steve Maraboli

You've always made the mistake of being yourself. ~ Eugene Ionesco

[N]ever stop being yourself. ~ Ruth Minsky Sender

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. ~ Mother Teresa

Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation. ~ Joan Jett