Be Yourself Quotes

Most popular be yourself quotes

"Be yourself" is often the worst advice you can give people.
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. - Abraham Verghese quote.
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

happiness

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. - Elizabeth Gilbert quote.
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. - Thomas à Kempis quote.
No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be. - Socrates quote.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.

pretense

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins. - Maya Angelou quote.
If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins.
We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.

character

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne quote.
No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

character

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

self-acceptance inner peace contentment

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. - Sydney Harris quote.
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.

self-improvement

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

funny

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. - Marguerite Yourcenar quote.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy? - Billy Graham quote.
Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. - Erasmus quote.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

happiness

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs quote.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

how to live life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs Commencement address, Stanford University, June, 2005

how to live life

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

self-acceptance buddhist beauty

Imagine awaking from a torpor having forgotten how your friends and family see you. Perhaps, unchained from everyone's expectations for how you ought to behave, you could be whoever you liked.

expectation

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. - Thomas Merton quote.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. - Honoré de Balzac quote.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

dealing with people

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
If virtue
can't be mine alone
at least my faults
can be my own.

shortcomings

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within. - Cicero quote.
Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

action authenticity

Why not be oneself?  That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.  If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

advisory

You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.  You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image. - Richard Bach quote.
You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.  You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.

authenticity inner peace

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? - Fanny Brice quote.
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?

authenticity inner peace

To 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 quote.
To 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.

individuality inner peace authenticity

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

authenticity

You can't change the music of your soul. - Katherine Hepburn quote.
You can't change the music of your soul.

individuality authenticity change the self

What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: to be himself. - Henrik Ibsen quote.
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: to be himself.

authenticity duty

The best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive.  At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"

authenticity

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

authenticity gentleman

One should stick by one's own soul, and by nothing else.  In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death.  And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors. - D. H. Lawrence quote.
One should stick by one's own soul, and by nothing else.  In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death.  And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

authenticity

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.  But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling. - D. H. Lawrence quote.
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.  But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

authenticity vision

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. - Ursula Le Guin quote.
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

authenticity

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. - Jack London quote.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

authenticity

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.  This need we may call self-actualization. - Abraham Maslow quote.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.  This need we may call self-actualization.

inner peace authenticity

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human 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 quote.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human 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.

individuality authenticity uniqueness

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin quote.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

authenticity pretense

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. - Gordon Parks quote.
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

integrity authenticity

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

the self authenticity

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson quote.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

individuality authenticity

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.

the self inner peace

My inner self was a house divided against itself. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
My inner self was a house divided against itself.

the self inner peace

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass quote.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

inner peace

There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.  Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.

inner peace

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

the self

I have no home but me.

the self

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. - Richard Bach quote.
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.
Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
You're Born An Original, Don't Die a Copy!
"What does it mean to be yourself?" he asked. "If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave." - Scott Adams quote.
"What does it mean to be yourself?" he asked. "If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave."
I'm a human being who remained independent, resisted conditioning, never belonged to any religion, political party, organization, nation, race. I've been myself, without any adjective. That has given me integrity, individuality, authenticity, and the bliss of fulfillment. - Osho Rajneesh quote.
I'm a human being who remained independent, resisted conditioning, never belonged to any religion, political party, organization, nation, race. I've been myself, without any adjective. That has given me integrity, individuality, authenticity, and the bliss of fulfillment.

individuality

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. - Confucius quote.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.