Be Yourself Quotes

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking".
- Paulo Coelho

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
- Paulo Coelho

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?
- Paulo Coelho

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
- Jodi Picoult

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
- Alan Alda

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
- Summer Altice

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
- Steve Maraboli

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.
- Richard Bach

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; an original is always worth more than a copy!
- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
-Snoopy
- Charles M Schulz

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
- Ingrid Bergman

No matter what happens, always be yourself.
- Dale Carnegie

You can't be yourself within jealousy.
- Toba Beta

Nobody asks anybody to be somebody.
Man for himself and be yourself, buddy!
- Toba Beta

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.
- Kate Bosworth

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!"
Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.
- Harley Brooks

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
- Robert Browning

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Be yourself, take control of your life.
- Emma Bunton

just be yourself
- Stephen Chbosky

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?
- Candace Bushnell

Be not another, if you can be yourself.
- Paracelsus

Be yourself, until you bleed.
- Mike Carey

If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice. - Claire from Going Under.
- Georgia Cates

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
- Aidan Chambers

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
- Kelly Clarkson

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
- Jean Cocteau

Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.
- Susane Colasanti

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
- Anderson Cooper

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

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
- Matt Damon

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
- Tony Danza

Be yourself, let you come through.
- Jonathan Davis

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
- John Green

I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like the wrong things are always bigger. And all the advie I've ever read --smile more, be yourself, dream big, stay positive--seems to have some darker side that's never mentioned.
- Jane Devin

The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.
- Mike Dooley

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
- Gabby Douglas

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
- Henry Miller

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

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
- Ethan Embry

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
- Guy Finley

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
- Cotton Fitzsimmons

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

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
- Eckhart Tolle

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love
- Jack Gantos

Life is simple, just be yourself.
- E Yen A Gardner

Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
- Selena Gomez

Always be yourself, there's no one better!
- Selena Gomez

Be yourself,its the best thing you can be.
- Selena Gomez

Be yourself, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
- Dr Seuss

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
- Nhat Hanh

My best advice is to be yourself. Unless you're psychotic, then you might want to try a different tactic.
- Gwen Hayes

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
- Jesse Helms

Some people say, save yourself and you save your life. I say, be yourself and you save your soul.
- Alice Hoffman

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

The more people I meet, the more I'm realizing how rare it is to find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it takes you.
- Katie Kacvinsky

Love is being able to be yourself, with another human being who makes you want to be better than yourself.
- Jarod Kintz

My advice to you: Just be yourself. That's what I'm trying to do. So, can I borrow your clothes?
- Jarod Kintz

The coolest way to be cool is to be yourself, because nobody can be you but you. Well, aside from your clone.
- Jarod Kintz

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

Be yourself. Unapologetically.
- Kesha

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
- Richard Kiel

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
- B B King

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
- E L Konigsburg

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".
- U G Krishnamurti

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
- Marta Kristen

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
- Joel Madden

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably....!
- Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
- Juliet Marillier

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.
- Dan Marino

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.
- Andrew Mason

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
- Willie Mays

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.
- Robin Mckinley

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
- Mignon Mclaughlin

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
- Anthony De Mello

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.
- David Morrell

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
- Jim Morrison

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

Be yourself, because really, who else can you be...?
- James A Murphy

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

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
- Marc Newson

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'
Be yourself,' said Ipek.
- Orhan Pamuk

I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.
- Hayden Panettiere

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.
- Dave Pelzer

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
- Dennis Potter

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
- J B Priestley

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.
- Ben Quayle

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
- Bill Rancic

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

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
- Rachael Ray

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

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.
- Jerome Richardson

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
- John Ritter

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
- Nora Roberts

Because there's nothing you can do about other people's reactions. You be yourself and let them be themselves and if you don't get what you want then tough and if you do then good for you and that's it. Everything else is manipulation and I spit on it.
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- Justina Robson

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

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
- Patrick Rothfuss

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."
- Donald Rumsfeld

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
- Kevin Smith

Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.
- Neal Stephenson

Just be yourself, there is no one better.
- Taylor Swift

Be yourself. There is no one better.
- Taylor Swift

Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
- Taylor Swift

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.
- Ice T

Just be yourself and you'll be fine
- Natsuki Takaya

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.
- Natsuki Takaya

...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.
- Natsuki Takaya

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
- John Updike

If you have the guts to be yourself...other people'll pay your price.
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- John Updike

If you just have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
- John Updike

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

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
- Gerard Way

Remember to always be yourself.
- Joss Whedon

Always be yourself... unless you suck.
- Joss Whedon

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
- Joss Whedon

Everyone has their own story and that's something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn't make it right for you. It's cooler to be yourself.
- Hayley Williams

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.
- Stephanie Zimbalist