Being Yourself Quotes - Page 31

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

What I would tell girls coming up is just be yourself and don't let people get in the way.

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.

I try to show the freedom to be yourself, unapologetically and irreverently.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Real style is never right or wrong. It's a matter of being yourself on purpose.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

You're unique, amazing Like no one else You have the exclusive On being yourself.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Don't fake it till you make it. Be real, be transparent, be authentic and be yourself.

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.