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If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, At bottom

At bottom every man knows well enough that he


Be Yourself Quotes gonna love somebody else? you’re different than anyone else. is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by
Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, RuPaul Tony Bennett no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously
and never let them take you alive. They can’t scare me if I scare them first. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is,
Gerard Way Lady Gaga need to be accepted by others. You need to accept ever be put together a second time.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because Find out who you are  and do it on purpose. yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche
those who mind don’t matter, and those who Dolly Parton Bindi Irwin They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at
matter don’t mind. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give them because they’re all the same.
Bernard M. Maruch you, but you decide what you are, what you want to some people. Kurt Cobain
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” to express by the way you dress and the way to J. B. Priestley It takes courage to grow up and become who you
– Oscar Wilde live. Don’t worry about what the people say; be really are.
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the Gianni Versace yourself, say what you want to say with respect. E.E. Cummings
madness. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a Mariano Rivera I would rather die having spoken in my manner,
Allen Ginsberg man’s entire existence. “You can’t believe how hard it is to be than speak in your manner and live.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying Balzac yourself.” – Chris Collinsworth Socrates
to make you something else is the greatest When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you The secret to  success  is to be yourself. “Conformity gets you nowhere.” – Neil
accomplishment. become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you S. Sreesanth Strauss
Ralph Waldo Emerson become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I When you are content to be simply yourself and Appear as you are, be as you appear.
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s became a painter and wound up as Picasso. don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect Rumi
all you’ve really got; when you strip everything Picasso you. I am not what happened to me, I am what I
down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s Lao Tzu choose to become.
Al Roker better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define Carl Jung
You may not control all the events that happen to boring. yourself. You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon
you, but you can decide not to be reduced by Marilyn Monroe Harvey Fierstein people. Period.
them. Don’t let others box you into their idea of what Never complain, never explain. Resist the David Goggins
Maya Angelou they think you should be. A confined identity is a temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose
About all you can do in life is be who you are. miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust Brian Tracy the crowd but to think for yourself.
Some people will love you for you. Most will love that in living true to yourself, you will attract Never apologize for being yourself. Peter Thiel
you for what you can do for them, and some people that support and love you, just as you are. Paolo Coelho Only dead fish go with the flow.
won’t like you at all. Jaeda deWalt Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living Derek Sivers
Rita Mae Brown To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to someone else’s life. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom
“Be yourself, but always your better self.” – respect the right to be different is maybe even Steve Jobs to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel.
Karl G. Maeser greater. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and Whatever you happen to be feeling at any
You cannot change what you are, only what you Bono you must care less and less what people think of moment is fine with them. That’s what real love
do. If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t you. amounts to – letting a person be what he really
Philip Pullman compare the economic benefit with art. Robert Greene is.
You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant? Kelly Liang No one ever made a difference by being like Jim Morrison
Dr. Seuss “The most exhausting thing in life is being everyone else. Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any
I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh Buckminster Fuller reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.
think about you at all. Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign When someone is properly grounded in life, they Steve Mariboli
Coco Chanel with a good grace all that you are not. shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not Henri Frederic Amiel approval. Dolly Parton
a second rate version of someone else. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you Epictetus Consult your conscience; rather than popular
Judy Garland do so, you apologize for the truth. Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be opinion.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with Benjamin Disraeli somebody. Pubilius Syrus
their dirty feet. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have Nike “When you are in your own lane there is no
Mahatma Gandhi created me otherwise. “The superior man follows nobody else’s traffic.” – Ashley France
“Just be yourself, there is no one better.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe path.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to
Taylor Swift One’s real life is often the life that one does not Don’t let other people decide who you are. which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is lead. Bob Goff Hermann Hesse
doing its best, night and day, to make you Oscar Wilde You change the world by being yourself. Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself.
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle We all wear masks, and the time comes when we Yoko Ono Bella Thorne
which any human being can fight; and never stop cannot remove them without removing some of Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own
fighting. our own skin. thing and work hard. The right people – the ones
E.E. Cummings Andre Berthiaume who really belong in your life – will come to you,
God has given you one face, and you make It is better to be hated for what you are than to and stay.
yourself another. be loved for something you are not. Will Smith
William Shakespeare Andre Gide When you see a mob doing something, it should
The individual has always had to struggle to keep Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack make you less likely to do it yourself, not more
from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. likely.
you will be lonely often, and sometimes Janeane Garofalo Paul Graham
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the Some people say you are going the wrong way, A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a
privilege of owning yourself. when it’s simply a way of your own. living thing can go against it.
Friedrich Nietzsche Angelina Jolie G.K. Chesterton
Where’s your will to be weird? How many more of us are faking the facade? You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to
Jim Morrison How many more of us are pretending to be be themselves.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. something we’re not? Even better, how many of Mooji
David Carradine us will have the courage to be ourselves The imitator dooms himself to hopeless
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are regardless of what others think? mediocrity.
someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, Katie McGarry Ralph Waldo Emerson
their passions a quotation. “Existence wants you to be you.” – Osho The world just wants your authentic truth.
Oscar Wilde Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop Gabby Bernstein
I find the best way to love someone is not to caring about what others think. Large groups are no place for smart people.
change them, but instead, help them reveal the Roy T. Bennett,  The Light in the Heart Naval Ravikant
greatest version of themselves. To shine your brightest light is to be who you “You eliminate competition by being
Steve Maraboli truly are. yourself.” – Dan Go
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and Roy T. Bennett The most courageous act is still to think for
depressing than banality. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone yourself. Aloud.
Anton Chekhov likes you except yourself. Coco Chanel
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so Rita Mae Brown Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy
trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in of growth.
strongly before the sun and moon whatever only yourself, do not go out and look for a successful John F. Kennedy
rejoices me, and the heart appoints. personality and duplicate it. I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson Bruce Lee or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man You just have to be yourself and go full with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
who hides one thing in his heart and speaks confidence and be courageous. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every
another. Gabby Douglas opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Homer If you can just be yourself, then you have to be Bertrand Russell
“Follow your own star!” – Dante Alighieri original because there’s no one like you. This above all: to thine own self be true.
Marc Newsom William Shakespeare,  Hamlet

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