Being Yourself Quotes

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

~ Edward Swift

My beliefs are the center of my being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

~ B.j. Novak

If you're the smartest person in the room, you might wanna switch rooms.

~ Sabrina Newby

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

~ Criss Jami

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

~ Donna Goddard

God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don’t regret it.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It was almost painful to be different.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Most people just want to see you fall, that's more reason to stand tall.

~ Emma Michelle

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

~ Mandy Hale

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

~ Leila Sales

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

~ Alain De Botton

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

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

~ D. M. Timney

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

~ Heidi Julavits

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

~ Nenia Campbell

He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward.

~ Arnaldur Indriðason

We spend so long trying to be what other people want,that when we look in the mirror,we see a stranger.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

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.

~ Nadège Richards

Be strong enough to ignore the negative opinions of people, so that your positive spirit could illuminate your true unique colors.

~ Hafiz

No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

~ Hafiz

No other version no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

~ Hafiz

Be as advertised.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

~ Brandon Sanderson

HOME, which is the last floor for everyone.

~ Sushil Singh

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

~ Jt Sanz

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

~ Bert Mccoy

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

~ Anthony Liccione

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

~ Trevor Driggers

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

~ Auliq Ice

God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.

~ Dianna Hardy