Be Yourself Quotes and Sayings

“Be yourself in a world that wants you to be someone else.”

This is pretty strong for me. In this world, society is turning everyone to be someone that they are not to be able to conform to their standards. But personally, this is tragedy. Imagine being someone else, depriving yourself from the happiness that you can only get once you free yourself from the shackles of society’s standard.

Isn’t it rewarding to be able to do things according to your will. Isn’t true happiness comes from being able to do whatever your heart wishes? You can only do it by BEING YOURSELF.

Get inspiration from these be yourself quotes and sayings. We have a list of empowering quotes about being yourself.

• Follow your own star!-Dante Alighieri

• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

• Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.-Allen Ginsberg

• Find out who you are and do it on purpose.-Dolly Parton

• A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.-Coco Chanel

• Never dull your shine for somebody else.-Tyra Banks

• One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.-Shannon L. Alder

• What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.-Carl Rogers

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.-Andre Gide

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

• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.-Philip Pullman

• You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?.-Dr. Seuss

• I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.-Bobby Brown

• Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.-Steve Mariboli

• With confidence, you have won before you have started.-Marcus Garvey

• I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.-Coco Chanel

• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.-Mahatma Gandhi

• Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.-Judy Garland

• Be happy. Be bright. Be you.

• worry about loving yourself, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

• Let go of who you think you need to be and just be who you actually are.

• Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong.

• Love yourself for who you are.

• She was herself and that made her beautiful.

• Embrace the glorious mess that you are.-Elizabeth Gilbert

• Never allow anyone to define you. Just be you.

• Be yourself. People don’t have to like you, and you don’t have to care.

• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.-Julius Charles Hare

• The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.-Tony Robbins

• We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.-Andre Berthiaume

• No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

• Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.-Meg Medina

• We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.-Virginia Satir

• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.-Rumi

• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.-Eleanor Roosevelt

• Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.-Bertrand Russell

• You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.

• Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.-St. Catherine of Sienna

• If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?-RuPaul

• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.-Rita Mae Brown

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.-Quentin Crisp

• Just because they disagree, doesn’t mean you ain’t right.-Toba Beta

• our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.-Steve Jobs

• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.-Oscar Wilde

• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.-Marilyn Monroe

• I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.-Johnny Depp

• To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.-Irving Wallace

• I’m the pink sheep in the family.-Alexander McQueen

• When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.

 

• They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.-Lady Gaga
• Kites rise high against the wind, not with it.-Winston Churchill
• There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.-Anton Chekhov
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.-Bernard M. Maruch
• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.-Marilyn Monroe
• Faithless To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.-Maya Angelou
• 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.-Rita Mae Brown
• Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.-Genesis P-Orridge
• 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
• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.-William Shakespeare
• 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.-Friedrich Nietzsche
• Where’s your will to be weird?-Jim Morrison
• Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.-Homer
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.-David Carradine
• I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.-Steve Maraboli
• I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.-Homer
• 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.-Gianni Versace
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.-Balzac
• When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.-Picasso
• You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.-Tegan Quin
• Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.-Jaeda deWalt
• If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.-Kelly Liang
• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.-Bono
• Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.-Henri Frederic Amiel
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.-Benjamin Disraeli
• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.-Johann von Goethe
• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique 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
• We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.-Andre Berthiaume
• One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.-Oscar Wilde
• Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.-Janeane Garofalo
• Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.-Angelina Jolie
• How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?-Katie McGarry
• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.-Jim Morrison
• Being yourself means shedding all the layers of looking good, wanting to be liked, being scared to stand out and trying to be who you think people want you to be. Being yourself means being naked, raw and vulnerable.-Jeff Moore