Yourself Quotations

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

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

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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

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.

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

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

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you ever.

Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

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?

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

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

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.