Top 200 Be Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

52. “I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams.”

— Michael Jackson

53. “Often people just don’t see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?”

— Michael Jackson

54. “To find your own way is to follow your bliss.”

— Joseph Campbell

55. “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.”

— Byron Katie

57. “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

— James Allen

58. “Follow your own star!”

— Dante Alighieri

59. “Follow no path. Make your own.”

— Jared Leto

60. “Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like being sorry for being real.”

— Lil Wayne

61. “Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.”

— Brené Brown

62. “I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

63. “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”

— William James

64. “But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”

— Albert Camus

65. “I AM Here Now As This.”

— Wei Wu Wei

66. “You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”

— Colin Powell

67. “Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”

— Neil Gaiman

68. “Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.”

— Suzy Kassem

69. “The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”

— Alan Cohen

70. “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

— Ken Venturi

71. “Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

72. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

— Brené Brown

73. “In this life, you have to be your own hero.”

— Jeanette Winterson

74. “Let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

75. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

76. “You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

77. “Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else’s reality while doing nothing about yours.”

— Steve Harvey

78. “Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.”

— Robin S. Sharma

79. “Never compromise your values.”

— Steve Maraboli

80. “What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

— Helen Keller

81. “I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.”

— Lady Gaga

82. “Become who you are. Make what only you can make.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

83. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

84. “Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

— Henry van Dyke

85. “The record shows, I took the blows. And did it my way.”

— Frank Sinatra

86. “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

87. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe

88. “It’s weird not to be weird.”

— John Lennon

89. “Your world will follow your idea about yourself.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

90. “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard.”

— Will Smith

91. “I’m no beauty queen, I’m just beautiful me.”

— Selena Gómez

92. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

— Harvey Fierstein

93. “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty.”

— Aldous Huxley

94. “I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

95. “Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.”

— Emma Watson

96. “Remember, you are constantly in the act of creating yourself. You are in every moment deciding who and what you are. You decide this largely through the choices you make regarding who and what you feel passionate about.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

97. “Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.”

— Erin Brockovich

98. “Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

99. “A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.”

— Marianne Williamson

100. “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”

— Thomas Merton