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Being yourself is a challenge in a world where conformity is the norm; it can be challenging. It’s easy to give in to peer pressure and try to be like the majority. When you’re not yourself, you become someone who tries to please others instead of making yourself happy.

Although we may face pressures to conform to others’ expectations, values, or worldviews, it’s upon us to chart our paths. We have to find the courage to build our futures from the inside out, not someone else’s. So without caring what other people think, start telling your story the way it was meant to be said. Embrace all your distinctive quirks, and don’t forget that your opinion of yourself is what matters most. The truth is that you can’t be someone else. You are you. You are unique and don’t have to sacrifice being yourself to achieve what you want.

It’s time you faced your fears and found the courage to build your future from the inside out. To motivate you to love yourself and live your best life rather than trying to impress others, here are the 290 best quotes to Inspire You to Be Yourself. Always keep in mind that being different and unique may seem scary at first, but it can be, in fact, your most significant source of strength. Stay strong, my friend.

Quotes About Being Yourself

Top 10 Be Yourself Quotes

“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” – Beyoncé

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

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

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” – Mozart

“Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.” – Michael Ian Black

“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

“Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.” – Brett Hull

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

Short Be Yourself Quotes

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“Own who you are.”

“Let yourself be yourself.”

“Be yourself, but always your better self.” – Karl G. Maeser

“This above all: to thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare

“Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!” – Bella Thorne

“Spontaneity is total sincerity.” – Alan Watts

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“All I want to do is be more like me and be less like you.” – Linkin Park

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.” – Balzac

“Appear as you are, be as you appear.” – Rumi

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, Amazon book)

“Be different; be unique; be yourself.” – Christina Grimmie

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

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself, not who someone wants you to be. Be unique.” – Chantelle Lambert

“Do not live to satisfy the expectations of others.” – Ichiro Kishimi (The Courage to Be Disliked, Amazon book)

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde

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

“Become who you are.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.” – Mabel

“Being true to yourself is better than being a liar.”

“Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.” – Conor McGregor

“Conformity gets you nowhere.” – Neil Strauss

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Consult your conscience; rather than popular opinion.” – Publius Syrus

“Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.” – Robert Greene

“Don’t be afraid, just be yourself.”

“Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody.” – Nike

“Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.” – John Grisham

“Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.” – Toby Keith

“Don’t let other people decide who you are.” – Bob Goff

“Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.” – Brett Hull

“Existence wants you to be you.” – Osho

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

“Fearlessly be yourself.” – Anthony Rapp

“Follow your own star!” – Dante Alighieri

“Your main purpose is to be yourself as fully as you can.” – Darryl Anka

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Amazon book)

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” – Raymond Hull

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” – Coco Chanel

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I’d rather be a freak than a clone.” – Joanne Harris

“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.” – Robert Frost

“If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul

“If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.” – Noam Chomsky

“If you don’t set your own values, other people will.” – Shane Parrish

“If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.” – Jordan Peterson

“Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.” – Byron Katie

“Just FYI, you are unique, and you are perfect!” – Izey Victoria Odiase

“Just because they disagree, doesn’t mean you ain’t right.” – Toba Beta

“Just be yourself. Life is too short to be someone else.”

“Just be yourself, there is no one better.” – Taylor Swift

“Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.” – Delilah

“Just be you, be beautiful and be comfortable in your own skin.” – Helen Edwards

“Just be who you want to be, not what others want to see.”

“In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E. E Cummings

“It is a waste of energy to follow anybody.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Large groups are no place for smart people.” – Naval Ravikant

“If you worry about your reputation you don’t deserve to have one.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.” – Osho

“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.” – Dolly Parton

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

“Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – L. Hay

“Never apologize for being yourself.” – Paulo Coelho

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.” – Tyra Banks

“No one is you and that is your power.”

“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” – Buckminster Fuller

“Not till we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people.” – Huang Po

“Only dead fish go with the flow.” – Derek Sivers

“People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“Remember, it’s ok to be yourself.” – Richard Branson

“Say what you feel. It’s not being rude, it’s called being real.”

“Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.” – Alice Walker

“Stop letting the world keep score for you.” – Shane Parrish

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.” – Epicurus

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.” – Aloud. Coco Chanel

“The world just wants your authentic truth.” – Gabby Bernstein

“Train yourself to take nothing personally.” – Robert Greene

“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” – Roy T. Bennett

“To lead others, one must find one’s own direction.” – Zhuangzi

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you.” – Kurt Cobain

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” – Alice Walker

“What the world craves is authenticity.” – Naval Ravikant

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” – Jordan Peterson

“When you are in your own lane there is no traffic.” – Ashley France

“You change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman

“You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss

“You are who you are when nobody’s watching.” – Stephen Fry

“You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.” – Osho

“You eliminate competition by being yourself.” – Dan Go

“You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people.” – Period. David Goggins

“You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.” – Jordan Peterson

“Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.” – Terry Goodkind

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“You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.” – Osho

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You’re more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you’re also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.” – Sophie

“He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is.” – Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, Amazon book)

“By being yourself, you put something beautiful into the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Sensei Ogui (Zen Shin Talks, Amazon book)

“A rebel is the one who lives totally according to his own light and risks everything else for his ultimate value of freedom.” – Osho

“Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance, a transcendence happens and one becomes free.” – Osho

“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.” – Haruki Murakami (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Amazon book)

“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

“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

“Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Be yourself and let others be themselves and this life, this planet, can become the lotus paradise here-now.” – Osho

“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.” – Zhuangzi

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.” – Joseph Campbell (The Hero’s Journey, Amazon book)

“Do not wait for others to roll out the red carpet for you. Be your own star.” – Christine E. Szymanski

“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

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” – David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest, Amazon book)

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” – Homer

“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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.” – Richard Feynman

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown

“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.” – Socrates

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

“If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.” – Epictetus

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” – Joseph Campbell

“If you change the way you behave for the sole purpose of being liked, you will probably end up hating the person you have become.” – Thibaut

“If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are.” – Osho

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” – Andre Gide

“It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.” – Matt Damon

“Just stick to your principles. And rest assured that, if you remain true to them, the same people who made fun of you will come to admire you.” – Epictetus

“Listening so much to others and conforming our behavior to them, we slowly lose a sense of our uniqueness and the ability to think for ourselves. The only solution is to develop self-awareness and a superior understanding of the changes that occur in us in groups.” – Robert Greene

“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.” – Nelson Mandela

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

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

“People follow the latest fashion and think they’re being rebels. In reality they’re clueless conformists. Rebellion is essentially of the soul. It has nothing to do with outward appearance. Real rebels are inwardly oriented. They don’t like to attract the attention of masses.”

“Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.” – Osho

“Self-understanding is the scariest path, hence why only the brave will reach it.”

“Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.” – Paulo Coelho

“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.” – Michelle Obama

“Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.” – Osho

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.”

“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.” – Zhuangzi

“The moment I figure out something is a waste of time, I leave immediately.” – Naval Ravikant

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The tighter you cling to your current identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.” – James Clear

“This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.” – Gloria Steinem

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir

“What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” – Lao Tzu

“Why try to be someone you’re not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.” – Robert Brault

“Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.” – Martellus Bennett

“Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness.” – Robert Greene

Funny Be Yourself Quotes

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“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason

“Be the person your dog thinks you are.” – Ricky Gervais

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” – Johann von Goethe

“If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.” – Marc Newson

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Own your truth and tell your story. It’s time to embrace your unique soul signature.” – Panache Desai

“So whatever you want to do, just do it…Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.” – Gloria Steinem

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” – Janeane Garofalo

“The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.” – Paul Graham

“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” – Kurt Cobain

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” – Alan Watts

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

“We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.” – Alice Walker

“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

“When you truly don’t care what anyone thinks of you, you have reached a dangerously awesome level of freedom.”

“You were born God’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy.” – Marian Wright Edelman

Inspirational Be Yourself Quotes

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“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” – Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed, Amazon book)

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.” – Anthony Rapp

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” – Tyrion Lannister (Games of Thrones, Amazon book)

“Be yourself. That is something you can do better than anyone else. Listen to that inner voice and bravely follow it.”

“A path of personal conviction offers great challenges and profound rewards. The journey may lead towards the tribe or away from it. The way of purpose is alive with a sense of intrinsic meaning. This is the rocky and uncrowded road of the self-responsible individual.”

“Accept right now that you are magnificent. Being your real, true, authentic self is what’s most awesome about you.” – Gabby Bernstein

“All great souls are rebellious at heart. He who is a conformist is doomed to mediocrity.”

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

“There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.” – Clint Eastwood

“Can you live completely without ambition, completely without ever comparing yourself with another?” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” – Charles Bukowski

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” – Harold Whitman

“Don’t be afraid to shine bright, be joyful and honor the whole truth of who you are.” – Gabby Bernstein

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.” – Gary Snyder

“Humans are born free, but habituated by society to obey by default. Flex your freedom muscle by questioning instead of blindly following authority.” – Justin Kan

“If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.” – Barbara Cook

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

“It is only the man who walks alone that is able to reach the highest of heights. For he has come to see with pristine clarity that every possible influence from society and its people can only shrink his vision and narrow his stride.” – Kapil Gupta

“It’s a simple fact of life: if you want to do something incredible, something that makes you stand out above the rest, then you have to become comfortable being different–that means being misunderstood, criticized, even hated.” – Mark Manson

“Man has to create himself. He is not ready-made, he is not given. And the creation has to be a self-creation – nobody else can make you.” – Osho

“Never be afraid to be what you want to be…People don’t have to like you but they have to respect you.” – Mouloud Benzadi

“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” – Angelo Patri

“Only those who can accept their own annihilation can have the courage to be true individuals.” – Alan Watts

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

“The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.” – Leo Buscaglia

“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.” – Cassandra Clare

“The world is so busy telling us who we should be, that we forget who we are.” – Bill Masur

“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

“We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.” – Fred Rogers

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.” – Joel Osteen

“When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people’s opinion, freer, more real.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality.” – Osho

“You don’t need permission to be who you are, the universe already gave you permission.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

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“You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.” – Robert Greene

“Exercise authority over yourself, or you will be made to bow to the authority of others. Be your own lord and master.”

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself – exactly oneself and no one else.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Don’t try to be different, and don’t try to be like everyone else: just be yourself.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don’t ever compare yourself to others. You are not a copy, you are an original. Craft your own individuality and sense of style and just be yourself.” – Yvonne

“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for” – Oliver James

“Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don’t be someone else just be yourself.” – Selena Gomez

“Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.”

“Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.” – Gerard Way

“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

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” – Julius Charles Hare

“As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them.” – Orhan Pamuk

“You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.” – Robert Greene

“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

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But fortunately we are not apples, so we always have the option of getting up and moving as far away from the tree as we want.” – Neil Strauss

“No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you home.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.” – Dita Von Teese

“Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!” – Bella Thorne

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” – Lao Tzu

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

“A contrarian isn’t one who always objects – that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.” – Naval Ravikant

“And how can we truly know ourselves unless we get still enough to listen to just ourselves? Unless we give ourselves the time and space to tune in.” – Shayne Traviss

“Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you.” – Robert Greene

“Focus on being true to yourself and self-sufficient, and you’ll eventually find like-minded people.” – Ed Latimore

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” – Roy T. Bennett

“I figured out that being yourself isn’t something that just happens. It’s something you create. You have to create yourself.” – Eric Kahn Gale

“I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.” – Marilyn Manson

“I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.” – Stephen Chbosky

“Just be yourself, let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful & magical person that you are.” – Mandy Hale

“If you peg your identity to the things you do, you are facing a never-ending cycle of identity evaluation.” – Janeen Latini

“It has often been said that a reformation should begin with each man reforming himself.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.” – Anthony Hopkins

“Never label yourself. The less you define yourself by, the less constraints to growth.” – Derek Sivers

“One has to be a teacher to oneself and a disciple of oneself; there is no authority, there is only understanding.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“One must know oneself. Even if it does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one’s life, and nothing is more proper.” – Blaise Pascal

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

“The freedom to be yourself is a gift only you can give yourself. But once you do, no one can take it away.” – Doe Zantamata

“The minute you stop caring what others think, is the minute you start being yourself.” – Gabby Bernstein

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” – May Sarton

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay

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“Be happy without comparing yourself to others.”

“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

“Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.”

“I teach you rebellion! Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.” – Osho

“I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.” – Phyllis Diller

“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

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion – against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.” – Johnny Cash

“Keep being yourself inside you. Keep visualizing what you are aiming for in life. Be patient and know that you will get what you want one day.” – Yoko Ono

“The more you put yourself in situations that show that you don’t care what people think, the more people will seem to like you because they know you are truly being yourself.” – Joe Casanova

“The most important things in life are measured internally. You have an inner scoreboard. Playing to someone else’s scoreboard is easy. But when you look up at the end after winning, you’ll feel empty as you discover you won the wrong game. Play your own game.” – Shane Parrish

“The only way you’re going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.” – Nikki Blonsky

Proud To Be Yourself Quotes

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“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” – John Lennon

“When you try to be like someone else, you lose yourself and on top of that, you cannot be someone else! You are what you are!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass

“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

“Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm.” – Alice Walker

“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

“Stop letting other people define you, be yourself and be proud of it.” – Anonymous

“People tend to take pride in who they are. And that’s a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you’re proud of who you are, you won’t let that go when it’s necessary; you won’t step away from it.” – Jordan Peterson

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

“No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end, you just have to be yourself.” – Andres Iniesta

“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” – Angelina Jolie

“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” – Alan Watts

Final Thoughts

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We all feel the pressures to conform throughout our lives — to others’ expectations, values or worldviews, be it in our intimate circles or society at large. However, it’s upon you to find the courage to chart your path rather than trying to impress others.

You don’t have to be like the majority. You can be whoever you want to be. It’s your choice. Decide, envision, and act in alignment to the best version of who you want to be.

We hope that these quotes about being yourself have inspired you to love yourself and be yourself no matter what others might think of you. Did you enjoy these be yourself quotes? Which of the quotes was your favourite? We would love to hear all about it in the comment section below.

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