Best 855 quotes in «being yourself quotes» category

The secret is to become someone else, something else. All sex grows dull. You renew it by reinventing yourself, and as a new character, you have new urges. I adore being a rabbit.

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom".

This is BLOSSOM!

Thoughts. They appear within you but they are not yours. You see them go by but you do not create them. They are images and words of life itself.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

True beauty can only be found in the true Self.

Two Englishmen meeting for the first time instantly seek the differences between them, the doubts and reservations, the message in the other’s accent.

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be. Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.

We Are Not Here To Judge People Every Now And Then..It Gives More Results If We Judge Ourselves....

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.

We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

When I am, you are not.

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

When I believe in myself my life is vibrationally amazing!

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

When you give all your power to the powers that be, you take away the powers of thee.

While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don’t regret it.

Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

You cannot suffer without thinking of suffering. Yet you can think that you are suffering without suffering.

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire, But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.

You need not search for uniqueness, you are unique already. There is no way to make a thing more unique. The words “more unique” are absurd. It is just like the word “circle.” Circles exist; there is no such thing as “more circular.” That is absurd. A circle is always perfect, “more” is not needed.

You just can't apologize for being you nor for your emotional self, nor for your intellectual self, nor for spiritual self, nor for your physical self. It's all a part of who you are, signal that you don't value who you are, once that occurs you have a serious work to do, to get back to where you need to be in order to move on in life.

You should always speak your mind and be bold and obnoxious and do whatever you want and dont let anybody tell you to stop it

Why do some hide what is part of them when only what they seem to be is worse?

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

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.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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

Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now there's something new they can aim for that's in their grasp. Because a lot of times when you attend a jazz college it's all about the history, none of the teachers there are forward-thinking, for the most part, so they don't teach you how to be yourself and embrace the music around you.

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!