Be You Quotes

• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wise

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

  "You Learn by Living".

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• Just be yourself, there is no one better.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Relationship, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

  John Jakes

  Positive, Being Yourself, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

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• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

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• I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

  Lady Gaga

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Scare

  "'Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts" by Lonnae O'Neal Parker, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Confidence

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• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

  Philip Pullman

  Change, Being Yourself, Life Changing

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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