It’s hard to be yourself sometimes, when there is so much pressure from friends, family, and society to be someone else. To help you remember how important it to be true to yourself, we’ve collected the most inspirational be yourself quotes that the internet has to offer. These pearls of wisdom from actors, writers and other famous personalities should be just the thing to help you bring back the spark of individuality that society is so good at squashing.
Be Yourself Quotes – 10 Quotes to Inspire you to Be Yourself
1. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
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Bruce Lee is one of the most famous martial artists of all time, but his talents don’t only lie in throwing punches and kicks. It’s tempting to emulate someone that you look up to, whether it’s a parent, a teacher, or a famous person. Instead of copying their personality, take the good aspects and make them a part of yourself.
2. “Be yourself, but always your better self.” – Karl G Maeser
Being yourself is great, but there is always room for improvement. Don’t settle for just being a good version of yourself, strive to be the best version of yourself that you can be. Learning how to be your best self isn’t always easy, but it is always worth it.
3. “Don’t be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think your working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.” – Jacqueline Macinnes Wood
Most of us have lived our lives under the impression that we need to try to be normal in order to fit in and be happy. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Don’t try to be normal, don’t try to fit in. Be you’re awesome, weird, different self and revel in it. Anyone who doesn’t like it doesn’t need to be in your life. It’s a great way to find your true friends as well.
4. “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.” – Henry Rollins
From the beginning of our lives, we emulate those around us. We emulate our parents to learn how to speak, and we emulate our friends to learn socialization skills and how to share. The trick is to be able to separate your true selves from those emulations. You don’t need to forget what you have learned. Instead, take all of those things that you learn and use them to become an amazing individual.
5. “There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try to adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.” – Hope Solo
The chameleon is a fantastically unique reptile with the ability to change its color to math its environment. This is designed as a defensive mechanism to protect them from predators in their natural environment. You don’t need to be a chameleon. Don’t adapt to your environment. If you don’t like your environment, change it.
6. “Now we have so many more social outlets, so many more ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.” – Khloe Kardashian
The Kardashian’s are famous just for being famous, but occasionally they do have a few pearls of wisdom. Facebook, Twitter, and the internet in general tend to be a breeding ground for bullies who find themselves strengthened by the anonymity of the internet. Don’t let the faceless internet trolls tear you down or stop you from being yourself.
7. “You just have to be yourself, and go full with confidence and be courageous.” – Gabby Douglas
Having courage doesn’t mean that you’re not afraid. Courage means that you stand up and face your fears, no matter how afraid they may make you. Having enough courage to be yourself is hard, but not impossible. Stand up, delight in your confidence, and have courage to face every single day as yourself, instead of as someone else.
8. “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
This quote really hits home for every writer like me who has struggled with finishing a novel, a novella, or a short story. Each story is a part of you, and if you can’t be yourself through your stories, then you will find it hard to be yourself in every other aspect of your life. Let yourself shine through every word you write.
9. “I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.” – Anne Hathaway
Actress Anne Hathaway is the poster child for being herself, in spite of the fact that she’s constantly under the Hollywood magnifying glass. Don’t try to be perfect. Striving for perfection is just going to end with you disappointed in yourself. Forget the idea of perfection altogether. Instead, just work on being happy with yourself. You will find that it’s all you will ever need.
10. “Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end you just have to be yourself.” – Andres Insesta
You will never please everyone, and the sooner you come to terms with that fact, the sooner you will be able to be happy and be yourself. There is no way to make everyone happy no matter what you do. Don’t dwell on it, and be yourself. You’ll be happier for it.
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11. “ You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?”
– Dr. Seuss
12. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel
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13. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
14. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
– Judy Garland
15. “ 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
16. 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.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
17. “ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard M. Maruch
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18. “ Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
– Marilyn Monroe
19. “ Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
20. “ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
21. “ If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
– Johann von Goethe
22. “ The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
23. “ 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
24. “ We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
– Andre Berthiaume
25. “ One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
– Oscar Wilde
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26. “ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
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27. “ Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsberg
28. “Faithless To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “ You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
– Maya Angelou
30. “ 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
31. “ Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
– Gerard Way
32. “ You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
– Philip Pullman
33. “ God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
– William Shakespeare
34. “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”
– Angelina Jolie
35. “ I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.”
– Bobby Brown
36. “ How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?”
– Katie McGarry
37. “ Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.”
– Steve Mariboli
38. “ The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
– Lao Tzu
39. “ A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison
40“ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde
41. “ If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
– David Carradine
42. “ I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
– Steve Maraboli
43. “ I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “ Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
– Dolly Parton
45. “ Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
– Homer
46. “ If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
– RuPaul
47. “They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.”
– Lady Gaga
48. “ 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
49. “ our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs
50. “ An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.”
– Balzac
60. “ When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
– Picasso
61. “ Follow your own star!”
– Dante Alighieri
62. “ Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.”
– Jaeda deWalt
63. “ If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.”
– Kelly Liang
64. “ To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
– Bono
65. “ It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
– Andre Gide
66. “ Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in..”
– Janeane Garofalo
67“ Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.”
– Genesis P-Orridge
68. “ I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel
Learning how to be yourself is one of the most amazing and inspirational moments in your life. Hopefully these be yourself quotes and sayings have inspired you to do just that. If you’re looking for a little more inspiration, check out our quotes about being happy, inspirational quotes about life, inspirational love yourself quotes and sayings or our Dr. Seuss quotes page to add a little bit of whimsy in your life.