Being Yourself Quotes

The best thing to gift yourself is to be just YOURSELF, improving above the person that you were yesterday.

~ Vikrmn

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

~ Hugo Pratt

Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.

~ Julie B. Campbell

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!

~ Stasi Eldredge

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

~ Luke Rhinehart

So from now on, screw perfect. Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know them by telling your own stories and listening to theirs. Hang out with the people you think are cool, not the people you'd like to be considered cool by. Do things because they interest you, not because they make you look interesting... and then, take stock in a month and see whether you're not happier, healthier, and working on some actual friendships with other imperfect-but-lovely humans.

~ Kat Rosenfield

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

~ Michael Josephson

Letting go of stuff allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

~ Dee Williams

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.

~ Karin Rahbek

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

~ Dianna Hardy

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

After sounding a lot like other people in my decades of past I have found my own voice when I realized I needed Christ and in so doing I am becoming just like Him as time marches on.

~ John M Sheehan

We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

~ Amen Muffler

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.

~ Lisa Burstein

I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.

~ Jay Woodman

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you’ll always be you.

~ Arnold Arre

When you give all your power to the powers that be, you take away the powers of thee.

~ Tammy Wooster

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

~ Keith Ferrazzi

True beauty can only be found in the true Self.

~ Ka Chinery

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.

~ Dan Pearce

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

~ C.g. Jung