Being Yourself Quotations

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

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

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

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.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. 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.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

About 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.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

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

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

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.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.