Being Yourself Quotes

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.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.