1. “You change the world by being yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

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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

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3. “Be – don’t try to become.”

— Osho

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4. “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”

— Lady Gaga

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5. “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

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6. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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7. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— C.G. Jung

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8. “Beauty begins in the moment you decide to be yourself.”

— Coco Chanel

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9. “Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.”

— Rumi

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

— William Shakespeare

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11. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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12. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”

— J.K. Rowling

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13. “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

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14. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

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15. “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

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16. “The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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17. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”

— Maya Angelou

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18. “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.”

— Danielle LaPorte

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19. “Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong.”

— Charles M. Schulz

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20. “Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.”

— Terry Crews

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21. “It’s about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.”

— Esther Hicks

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22. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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23. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

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24. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

— Rumi

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25. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide

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26. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

— Lao Tzu

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27. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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28. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

— Anna Quindlen

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29. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

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30. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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31. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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32. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

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33. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Tupac Shakur

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35. “A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”

— Napoleon Hill

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36. “Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”

— Bruce Lee

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37. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho

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38. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

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39. “Next time you think of beautiful things, don’t forget to count yourself in.”

— Anonymous

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40. “Success is loving life and daring to live it.”

— Maya Angelou

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41. “I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”

— Rumi

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42. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

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43. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

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44. “To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

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45. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

— Maya Angelou

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46. “It’s weird not to be weird.”

— John Lennon

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47. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

— Jim Morrison

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48. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss

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49. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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50. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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