Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jaleel White

You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

Jaime Winstone

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Jaime Murray

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

Jack White

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.

Isaac Asimov

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Iris Apfel

Never be afraid to stop traffic.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

Hugh Laurie

Keep on being yourself.

Eugene Ionesco

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Esther Hicks

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Ethel Merman

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

Jacqueline Emerson

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

Fulton J. Sheen

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Christina Perri

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

Chris Pratt

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

George Robinson

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

George Robinson

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

George Robinson

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

George Robinson

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jeanette Winterson

Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Jean Rhys

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

Jhene Aiko

Just be yourself and wear deodorant.

Hope Solo

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

Iggy Azalea

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Howard Zinn

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat

George Carlin

When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

Frank Gehry

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.