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These quotes about being yourself will help you determine your own identity and live the life you want for yourself.
How many times each day do you mean to say one thing, and say another instead, because you’re worried about what others might think?
How often do you wake up in the morning with one idea in mind for what you want to accomplish, only to find yourself doing something else because of social pressures or personal anxieties?
No lifetime, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you cannot learn to love yourself and be yourself.
It may seem hard, but great people throughout history who have struggled to find their identities, too. Just as they rose to the challenge, you too can learn how to be yourself.
Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
Gerard Way![]()
You’ve got to be yourself, and if you’re not, you’re a phony. It comes shining through if you’re not careful.
Jack Harbaugh
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar WildeBe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Bernard Baruch
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
Al Roker
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
“Be yourself, but always your better self.” – Karl G. MaeserAbout all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Philip Pullman
You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
Dr. Seuss
I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.
Coco Chanel
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Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
“Just be yourself, there is no one better.I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
” – Taylor SwiftTo be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where’s your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Anton Chekhov
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Follow your own star!” – Dante AlighieriHateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer
If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
RuPaul
They can’t scare me if I scare them first.
Lady Gaga
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly PartonAdvertisements
Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Balzac
When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Picasso
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist.
Jaeda deWaltBe you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow LindberghIf you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.
Kelly Liang
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
Janeane Garofalo
Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.
Angelina Jolie
“Existence wants you to be you.” – OshoHow many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.
Roy T. Bennett
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Gabby Douglas
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.
Marc Newsom
It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you’re different than anyone else.
Tony Bennett
To be beautiful means to be yourself.
Bindi IrwinYou don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. Priestley
“You can’t believe how hard it is to be yourself.” – Chris CollinsworthDon’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
The secret to success is to be yourself.
S. Sreesanth
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Lao Tzu
Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Brian Tracy
Never apologize for being yourself.
Paolo Coelho
Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.
Robert Greene
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.
Buckminster Fuller
When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.
Epictetus
“The superior man follows nobody else’s path.” – Napoleon BonaparteDon’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
Bob Goff
You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono
Don’t chase people.
Will SmithBe yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you, and stay.
When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely.
Paul Graham
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G.K. Chesterton
You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves.
Mooji
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAdvertisements
The world just wants your authentic truth.
Gabby Bernstein
“You eliminate competition by being yourself.” – Dan GoLarge groups are no place for smart people.
Naval Ravikant
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
Kurt Cobain
I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.
Socrates
“Conformity gets you nowhere.” – Neil StraussIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Appear as you are, be as you appear.
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I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung
You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period.
David Goggins
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
Peter Thiel
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Derek Sivers
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel.
Jim MorrisonWhatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.
Steve Mariboli
It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Dolly Parton
“When you are in your own lane there is no traffic.” – Ashley FranceConsult your conscience; rather than popular opinion.
Pubilius Syrus
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself.
Bella Thorne
AdvertisementsWe hope that these quotes about being yourself have inspired to take your own path.
It’s not always easy to be yourself, but part of that stems from learning to love and respect yourself as you are.
These sayings remind us that others have faced that struggle with their self esteem and the judgment of others and won!
Oneself Quotes - BrainyQuote
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
Jay-Z
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
Dayananda Saraswati
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Anthony Hopkins
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas Chamfort
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy
Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself.
If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Patrick McGoohan
I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.
Peter Lindbergh
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
There are things one must do for oneself.
Robert Mugabe
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
Viktor E. Frankl
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
Emile Durkheim
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself.
And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.
Maria Montessori
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.
Phylicia Rashad
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Loren Eiseley
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James Baldwin
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression.
Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Evan Davis
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
Said Musa
Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.
Edward James Olmos
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self Quotes - ReadRate
No matter what, remember: you have yourself. We collected wise thoughts from the world of literature about how important it is for a person to love and appreciate himself.
There will always be time to scold.
Quotes about yourself are not pathetic phrases and sayings of famous people. This is a reminder to everyone: take care of yourself, love and respect yourself - the most normal thing in the world.
In daily routines, and even more so in difficult times for the world, it is easy for a person to forget about himself. It seems that thinking about your desires and needs when someone is much worse is a manifestation of terrible selfishness. It so happened that many in life push their interests to the background. Especially when they bear the burden of responsibility for the family, subordinates or clients.
Constantly thinking about others and forgetting about yourself is not a good strategy. Be kinder to yourself and in no case confuse selfishness and banal concern for your own spiritual and bodily health.
Quotes about myself - rather than about us, but for us. Read the thoughts of great authors about respect, self-worth and self-love.
"Love for yourself is the basis for loving another person."
Tit Nat Khan
“You are braver than you think. Stronger than you think. And smarter than you think."
Alan Milne. “Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all”
“Be yourself. Other roles are already taken. Oscar Wilde Jane Eyre
Selfishness is a symptom of a lack of self-love. He who does not love himself is always worried about himself.
Erich Fromm
“If this burden is mine, then I can handle it.”
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind
"Once you gain confidence in yourself, you will learn to live."
Johann Goethe
"Self-love, my lord, is not such a vile sin as neglect of oneself."
William Shakespeare. "Henry V"
"If you want to be loyal to someone or something, start by being loyal to yourself."
Paulo Coelho
“There is a test to determine whether your mission on Earth is completed or not.
If you're still alive, then it's not finished."
Richard Bach
"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and never will be."
Osho
"I withdraw into myself and open up the whole world."
Johann Goethe
By tradition, we duplicate the quotes below. This will make it easier for you to save them all in one fell swoop.
- “Love for yourself is the foundation for loving another person.” (Tit Nat Khan)
- "You are braver than you think. Stronger than you think. And smarter than you think." (Alan Milne. "Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all")
- “Be yourself. Other roles are already taken. (Oscar Wilde)
- "...respect yourself so much that you do not give all the strength of your soul and heart to someone who does not need it..." (Charlotte Bronte. "Jane Eyre")
- "If I got this burden, then I can handle it.
" (Margaret Mitchell. "Gone with the Wind") - “Egoism is a symptom of a lack of self-love. He who does not love himself is always worried about himself. (Erich Fromm)
- "Once you gain confidence in yourself, you will learn to live" . ( Johann Goethe)
- "Self-love, my lord, is not such a vile sin as self-neglect." (William Shakespeare. "Henry V")
- "If you want to be loyal to someone or something, start by being loyal to yourself." (Paulo Coelho)
- “There is a test to determine whether your mission on Earth is completed or not. If you're still alive, then it's not finished." (Richard Bach)
- "Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and never will be again." (Osho)
- "I withdraw into myself and discover the whole world." (Johann Goethe)
Finally, we want to say: it's not a shame to worry and root for yourself. Only by keeping yourself whole and healthy, you can survive any adversity.
If you are still worried about the selfishness of such a desire, know that by taking care of yourself, you do better for those to whom you are dear.
You may also like material with quotes about what it's like to be human.
Quotes about myself with meaning
Quotes about myself with meaning - I withdraw into myself and open the whole world. Goethe
I am not an artist, but I paint my dreams. I am not a writer, but I am writing my book of life.
I'm smart, although I don't look like me.
I can't stand it when people expect something from me. I immediately want to do the opposite.
Dimly, deep down, we know who we really are. This is the sorrow of our soul: we are not who we would like to be. Aldous Huxley
Call me whatever instrument you like, you can upset me, but you can't play me. W. Shakespeare. Hamlet
I roll where the puck will be, not where it was.
Wayne Gretzky
One of my downsides is that I forgive people for things that are not forgiven, and I get offended by the most ordinary little things.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must move. Albert Einstein
So many stones have been thrown at me that none of them is scary anymore. Anna Akhmatova
“Getting old is boring, but this is the only way to live long” Sainte-Beuve
Know yourself? If I knew myself, I would run away in fear. Goethe
At 18 you care what people think of you; at 40 you don't give a damn about what people think of you; at 60 you already know that no one has thought of you at all... John Fowles
Never give up on something that makes you smile. Heath Ledger
The weather is so wonderful outside, there is nothing to complain about. And I love to whine! This fucking good weather ruined everything...
I want love and affection, but there are noodles and fairy tales all around!
Do not rush to talk about yourself.
The conversation about you will start as soon as you leave. Al Pacino.
… respect yourself enough not to give all the strength of your soul and heart to someone who does not need it… Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
If God wants to make you happy, then he leads you on the most difficult path, because there are no easy paths to happiness. Dalai Lama
I have many friends, but few friends, real, for life, those who are ready to lend a shoulder to you in difficult times, who rejoice at your luck, perhaps more than you yourself.
My biggest regret in life is that I never learned to speak frankly with my parents, especially with my father. David Bowie
If you think you can do it, and if you think you can't, you'll be right anyway. Henry Ford
I'm not leaving. Sometimes I just don't. E. M. Remarque
Everything we lose will surely come back to us, but not always in the way we expect. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I try to live like ordinary people live.
As soon as a fighter considers himself great, he will lose. Fedor Emelianenko
Being unhappy is a habit. Being happy is also a habit. The choice is yours. Tom Hopkins
"If you can dream, you can make your dreams come true" Disney Walt
Growing up, I read so many role models in books. For the most part, they taught me what to do and when, how to behave. Neil Gaiman
I live in the moment. And he's wonderful. Jean Paul Belmondo
I will not waste the days of my life in pursuit of prolonging them. Ian Fleming
It seems to me that if there is absolute happiness, it is the feeling of being in the right place and with the right person. Yes Soya
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone up" Mark Twain
Nothing destroys a person so much as prolonged inaction. Aristotle
I couldn't sleep... I started counting sheep and eventually... I met a shepherd.
If suddenly you become bad for someone, it means that a lot of good has been done for this person.
