Being Yourself Quotes - Page 17

• Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

  Jeffree Star

  FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Sep 07, 2011

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• Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

  Willow Smith

  Best Things

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• The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Purpose

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• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Laughter, Learning

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Insults You, Advice

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• The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teaching, Learning, Brain

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

  Roberto Benigni

  Important, Oscars, Honest

  "A nose for trouble" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2003.

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• Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Thinking, Relax, Just Be Yourself

  "‘The Hunger Games’’ Jacqueline Emerson: Girl On Fire". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

  Andres Iniesta

  People, Just Being You, Like You

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

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• Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love You, Self Love, Awakening

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• Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

  Robert Breault

  Choices, Tough, Being Authentic

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• My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

  Tommy Lee

  Father, Philosophy, Believe

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• You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Dog, Circles

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

  Don Coppersmith

  Self Esteem, Love You, Passion

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• Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Real, Helping, Authentic Life

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.22, Harmony

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• Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Rejection, Enemy, Supportive

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.87, Harmony

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• One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

  Sue Thoele

  Strength, Emotional, Can Do

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.40, Conari Press

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• Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Trying

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• I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Solitude

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• Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Successful, Emotional, Energy

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.40, Delta

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• The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Views, People

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2007.

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• One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

  Christina Aguilera

  Trust, Night, People

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• Know that you yourself are a miracle.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Miracle, Knows

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