Be Yourself Quotes

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

~ Criss Jami

When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question Who are you?. If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.

~ Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me.

~ Ray Mancini

Getting into the habit of changing who you are to please others, is setting a lifetime marathon of running away from yourself.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Bernard M. Baruch

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

~ Peter V. Brett

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

~ Amber Hurdle

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

~ Amber Hurdle

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

~ Suzy Kassem

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

~ Massimo Marino

There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.

~ J.w. Lord

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be, that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

~ Robin Hobb

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

~ Simona Panova

You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Be unapologetically you.....Don't apologize for who you are or what you are. Just be YOU and those that matter will be drawn to you and those that aren't will not matter.

~ Nanette Mathews

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

~ Nanette Mathews

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

~ Walter Farley

Love is stronger than both fear and hope - if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each moment that you have, and love yourself and those around you just as they are, then there is no need to be owned by fear, or even hope, you just live the best you can, being the truth of that love that you are being, representing the stream of consciousness experiencing itself, always knowing that you will someday return to it again, and flow as part of it infinitely on.

~ Jay Woodman

She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by - And never knew.

~ Shel Silverstein

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

~ Dolly Parton

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

~ Ray Bradbury

Why the hell you have to feel bad! ... like I am crazy..... even if you are not !! many else out there .... feel the same in some point of time to be crazy enough, Hence.... let's just be practical and take light! Be yourself to live the Life.

~ Praveen Chenna

I think that I've been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.

~ Ava Dellaira

Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

~ Judy Garland

No matter how many thousands friends you've had, or even more likes you've got, but if you do not enjoy being yourself, then you just keep lying to yourself and unto others as well.

~ Toba Beta

I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.

~ Erin Bowman

The less you look to others,the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.

~ Ron W. Rathbun

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they were destined to lead based on nothing more than our own need for it to be true, we tell them, with a smile so tight it would crack nuts, “Just be yourself.”�

~ Heather Choate Davis

Try not to become a copy of someone else. Not even a perfect copy. Originals are always honored over duplicates.

~ Hafiz