Be You Quotes

• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

  Kurt Cobain

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Love Yourself

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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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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• Just be yourself, there is no one better.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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  You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Statement to the press in July 1969. "The Beatles: An Oral History". Book by Alan Lysaght and David Pritchard, p. 285, 1998.

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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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• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• About all you can do in life is be who you are.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

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

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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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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  Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

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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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