Being Yourself Quotes

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

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

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Steve Maraboli

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

To be deeply loved, means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities... hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling, than complete love, it's worth the risk... reach for it.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

~ Criss Jami

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

~ Mandy Hale

A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

~ Meg Medina

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.

~ Mandy Hale

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

~ Mandy Hale

Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O’Donohue points to this when he says that “behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

~ Meghan Don

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

~ J.r. Rim

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

~ Vikrmn

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry and mourn my average face?Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?Do I not sleep because I lose the race,Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?My mind is on a more important thingThat lifts my heart and makes my spirit soarI want to make the souls of people singAnd quiet down the mean and bullying roar.To help the wounded girls replace the scarWith the right to be exactly who they are.

~ Nancy N. Rue

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves you for yourself.I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value.I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. I thought that love was loss. Why is the measure of love loss?

~ Jeanette Winterson

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

~ Aditya Ajmera

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

~ Srishti

When I am, you are not.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Real is...just being you. It's not letting yourself be defined by other people's opinions of you, of who they think you are, or what they expect you to be. It's refusing to let them squash you into the box they've built for you, and just being yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Because you're never going to matter to everyone, just like everyone's never going to matter to you. So you choose the people whose opinions you care about, and you be real for them.

~ Kate Lattey

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

~ Mandy Hale

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

~ Mandy Hale

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

~ Mandy Hale

You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfill…and you have traveled a unique journey that has equipped you along the way with the tools you need to carry it out.

~ Mandy Hale

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

~ Mandy Hale

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

~ Dianna Hardy

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

~ Jayson James

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

~ Ken Kesey

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. Like what? I asked. My mouth was dry. I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.

~ Stephen Chbosky