Be You Quotes

• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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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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• 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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• 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 to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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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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• 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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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

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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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• 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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  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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• Just be yourself, there is no one better.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

  David Carradine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

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