Top 200 Be Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

152. “Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

153. “It’s vital to remember who you really are. It’s very important. It isn’t a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

— Terry Pratchett

154. “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

155. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Nhat Hanh

156. “When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.”

— Jack Ma

157. “Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.”

— Dolly Parton

158. “Life is for me to live my own way.”

— James Hetfield

159. “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

160. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

161. “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”

— Isadora Duncan

162. “What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

163. “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

— Parker J. Palmer

164. “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

165. “No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”

— Robert Holden

166. “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.”

— E.E. Cummings

167. “Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.”

— Oprah Winfrey

168. “This is me. Take it or leave it.”

— Melanie Chisholm

169. “Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.”

— Buddha

170. “For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.”

— Paul Anka

171. “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”

— Abraham Maslow

172. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”

— Rollo May

173. “Every decision you make – every decision that you make every second – is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

174. “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

175. “I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

— Madonna

176. “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”

— John Lennon

177. “Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don’t ignore that longing to make a difference.”

— Stephen R. Covey

178. “We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.”

— RuPaul

179. “If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.”

— Ziggy Marley

180. “A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

181. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

182. “Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.”

— John Wooden

183. “I now go beyond other people’s fears and limitations. I create my life.”

— Louise Hay

184. “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.”

— Rumi

185. “God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.”

— T.D. Jakes

186. “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

— Kanye West

187. “You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

— James Baldwin

188. “Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.”

— Richard Bach

189. “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself.”

— Madonna

190. “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

191. “I’m the hero of this story, I don’t need to be saved.”

— Regina Spektor

192. “Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

193. “I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.”

— Bo Burnham

194. “You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.”

— Joyce Meyer

195. “You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.”

— Fred Rogers

196. “To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

197. “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”

— Anaïs Nin

198. “There’s an African proverb: ‘When death finds you, may it find you alive.’ Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.”

— Michael Meade

199. “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”

— Abraham Maslow

200. “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

— Neil Gaiman