Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Kronenberger

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Liz Phair

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Melissa Bank

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Marilyn Manson

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Marilyn Manson

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Meredith Vieira

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

Masi Oka

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

Michael A. Stackpole

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Michael Josephson

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Marie Lu

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

Miranda Lambert

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

Mignon McLaughlin

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

John Wooden

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

John Wooden

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Marcus Buckingham

"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!"

Kimi Raikkonen

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Michael Ian Black

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Patrick Rothfuss

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Paul McDonald

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Oscar Wilde

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Skylar Astin

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

Rajneesh

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Rajneesh

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Rajneesh

Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor - and spread it to as many people as possible. People are miserable. Help them to laugh a little, to sing a little, to dance a little.

Jodi Picoult

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

John Green

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

John Green

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

David Belle

When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.

Dakota Fanning

I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?

Dag Hammarskjold

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Ingrid Bergman

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Fred Astaire

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.