Be Yourself Quotes

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

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

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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.

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man\'s.

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

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.