Top 200 Being Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

102. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

103. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

— Joseph Campbell

104. “The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

— Ram Dass

105. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

106. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

107. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

108. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”

— Taylor Swift

109. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

— Rumi

110. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

111. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”

— Robin S. Sharma

112. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

— Les Brown

113. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

114. “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

— David Viscott

115. “Just be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are.”

— Eminem

116. “When I say or do something I do it, I don’t give a damn what you think, I’m doing this for me...”

— Eminem

117. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

118. “A real girl isn't perfect. A perfect girl isn't real.”

— Harry Styles

119. “Remember it’s OK to be yourself.”

— Richard Branson

120. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafez

121. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.”

— Maya Angelou

122. “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.”

— Deepak Chopra

123. “Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

— Leo Buscaglia

124. “You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”

— Lady Gaga

125. “Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.”

— Brené Brown

126. “Never apologize for being yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

127. “Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.”

— John C. Maxwell

128. “The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”

— Tony Robbins

129. “Listen to your heart. It knows everything.”

— Paulo Coelho

130. “Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

— Sting

131. “Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.”

— Drake

132. “Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language – it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart – and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

133. “Take the risk of thinking for yourself.”

— Christopher Hitchens

134. “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

— William Shakespeare

135. “Don’t ever go with the flow. Be the flow.”

— Jay-Z

136. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

137. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

138. “Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.”

— Will Smith

139. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

— Dolly Parton

140. “No matter what happens, always be yourself.”

— Dale Carnegie

141. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

— Christopher Morley

142. “The worst crime is faking it.”

— Kurt Cobain

143. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

— John F. Kennedy

144. “You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

145. “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.”

— Bruce Lee

146. “You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

— Rumi

147. “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

148. “You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.”

— Simon Sinek

149. “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

150. “Only do what your heart tells you.”

— Princess Diana