Top 200 Being Yourself Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

152. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

153. “No matter what, always be yourself!”

— Greyson Chance

154. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

155. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

156. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson

157. “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.”

— R. J. Palacio

158. “The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”

— Deepak Chopra

159. “Think for yourself and question authority.”

— Timothy Leary

160. “You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

161. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

162. “You don’t have to change who you are, you have to become more of who you are.”

— Sally Hogshead

163. “Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.”

— Tatiana Maslany

164. “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

— Carl R. Rogers

165. “I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

— Johnny Depp

166. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”

— Anne Sweeney

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

— Kurt Cobain

168. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”

— Virginia Satir

169. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

— William Shakespeare

170. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

— Dave Pelzer

171. “There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

172. “In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.”

— Ashley Purdy

173. “Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won’t work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.”

— Kimi Raikkonen

174. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

175. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.”

— Ram Dass

176. “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.”

— Myles Munroe

177. “Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.”

— Andy Biersack

178. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

— Jane Austen

179. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

180. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”

— George R.R. Martin

181. “Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”

— Elif Shafak

182. “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

183. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

184. “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”

— H. G. Wells

185. “That which makes us DIFFERENT, will make a DIFFERENCE in the world some day. Be Yourself.”

— Tom Krause

186. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

— Neville Goddard

187. “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

188. “Never be afraid to stop traffic.”

— Iris Apfel

189. “It’s always important to be yourself.”

— Leighton Meester

190. “The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

191. “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”

— Katharine Hepburn

192. “There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”

— Anthony Rapp

193. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

194. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

195. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

— Golda Meir

196. “You are not a problem that needs solving.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Suzy Kassem

198. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

— Brené Brown

199. “Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

200. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs