Be Yourself Quotes

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.