Being Yourself Quotes - Page 10

• To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

  James Hollis

  Mean, Differences, Being Different

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• Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

  Apolo Ohno

  Positive, Self Esteem, Positivity

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• There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

  Richard Rohr

  Who I Am, Enough, Clergymen

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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, I Dont Care, Knowing

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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• The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Believe In Yourself

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• Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

  John Galliano

  Confidence, Football, Fashion

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Freedom, Being Alone

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, People, I Am Who I Am

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• You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, New Beginnings

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Change, Integrity

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• God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

  Caster Semenya

  God, Christian, Love Yourself

  "Caster is a cover girl" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

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• I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

  Uzo Aduba

  Inspirational, Change, Creativity

  "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.

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• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Lying, Rap, Love Yourself

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Time, Long

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Travel, Book

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• There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Destiny, Average

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Thinking, Personality

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• You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 08, 2011

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• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lexicographer, Criminal Mind, I Love Myself

  The Rambler, No. 135, July 02, 1751.

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Sad, Fashion, Just Being You

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Thinking

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

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