To thine own self be true.
Shakespeare
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. Cummings
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
Irene C. Kassorla
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
Lydia Maria Child
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Unknown
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out?
Oliver James
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
Leo Buscaglia
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.
James Poland
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Tony Robbins
Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
Gabrielle Roth
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Fortune Cookie
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann von Goethe
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
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Shirley MacLaine
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions, which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
Ralph Ellison
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you cant be exactly who you are.
Lady Gaga
Know thyself.
Thales
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
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Unknown
Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Boris Pasternak
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.
June Singer
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
John Mason
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
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