Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Valery

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Joyce Meyer

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

William Zinsser

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

William Zinsser

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.

Richard Gere

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

Richard Kiel

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

Roger Babson

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Sasha Azevedo

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

Sara Shepard

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

Sarah Steele

What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.

Will Smith

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

Wayne Dyer

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.

Robert Pattinson

I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!

Walt Kelly

You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.

Sandra Cisneros

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

Robin McKinley

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

Roberto Benigni

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Warren G. Bennis

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Xosha Roquemore

Operate from a place of love, be kind, and be yourself.

Wole Soyinka

Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.

Wiz Khalifa

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Zac Efron

I don't think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions. I think authenticity and being yourself is always, without a doubt, the best plan of action. Things happen differently when you're actually here, so you can't put out a general guideline that's gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.

Yusef Lateef

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

Tyra Banks

I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

Twiggy

We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

Twiggy

Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

Wilferd Peterson

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Walter Kaufmann

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Wilhelm Reich

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.

Rick Scott

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Vince Vaughn

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.