Quotes on Being Yourself

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

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

You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?

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.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.