Inspirations Being Yourself Quotes

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

Robert Fulghum

Love, Funny, Life

"True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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

Samuel Johnson

Being Yourself, Lexicographer, Criminal Mind

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

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To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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

Carl Jung

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Henry A. Kissinger

Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

Love, Life, Being Yourself

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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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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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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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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

"Contemporary Quotations‎". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1954.

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

Life, Positive, Graduation

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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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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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