Quotes on Being Yourself

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.