Top 200 Be Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

2. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

3. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Wise Quotes

4. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes

5. “I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Real Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Artist Quotes

6. “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Identity Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

7. “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

— Kurt Cobain

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Character Quotes, Honesty Quotes

8. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Identity Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

9. “Be different; be unique; be yourself.”

— Christina Grimmie

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Personality Quotes

10. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Famous Quotes, Poetry Quotes

11. “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

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Identity Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

12. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

13. “If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

14. “Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.”

— Ariana Grande

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Cute Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women

15. “Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Intention Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Inspirational Birthday Quotes

16. “Be yourself. Unapologetically.”

— Kesha

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes, Social Media Quotes

17. “If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can’t be the sun, be a star; It isn’t by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.”

— Douglas Malloch

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes, Know Your Worth Quotes, Good Morning Beautiful Quotes

18. “Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different. Just try hard to be you.”

— Zendaya

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Women, Stay Strong Quotes, Love Yourself Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

19. “What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

20. “No matter how talented you are, not everyone is going to like you, but that’s life. Stay strong.”

— Justin Bieber

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Don't Give Up Quotes, Haters Quotes

21. “Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Fear Quotes

22. “What you are to be, you are now becoming.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Growth Quotes

23. “More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing and I feel no shame in revealing that.”

— Casey Neistat

24. “Be content to seem what you really are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Virtue Quotes

25. “Be yourself, but always your better self.”

— Karl G. Maeser

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Personality Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

26. “As you are, so is the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Awakening Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

27. “You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Deep Quotes, Universe Quotes

28. “Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.”

— Beyoncé Knowles

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes, Lonely Quotes

29. “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

— Uta Hagen

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Individuality Quotes

30. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

— Rita Mae Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Witty Quotes, Individuality Quotes

31. “Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.”

— Ram Dass

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes

32. “Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

— Jim Carrey

Also featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes

33. “If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Self-Belief Quotes

34. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Identity Quotes, Individuality Quotes

35. “What one can be, one must be!”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Humanism Quotes

36. “Appear as you are, Be as you appear.”

— Rumi

37. “You have to take me for me. I am who I am.”

— Harry Styles

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Identity Quotes, Individuality Quotes

38. “The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

39. “True success – financial, personal, and professional – lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

40. “Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”

— Nelson Mandela

41. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Freedom Quotes

42. “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes

43. “Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.”

— Ben Howard

Also featured in: Stay Strong Quotes, Keep Your Head Up Quotes

44. “Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Monday Quotes, Work-Life Balance Quotes

45. “Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.”

— Mooji

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Heart

46. “The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Identity Quotes

47. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Quotes About Trust

48. “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Also featured in: Quotes About Feelings, Intuition Quotes

49. “The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.”

— Emma Watson

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Worth Quotes, Know Your Worth Quotes

50. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Sunshine Quotes