Quotes about Being Yourself

Embrace your uniqueness, it's your gift.

In a world of duplicates, be an original.

The most powerful you is the true you.

Dancing to your own rhythm is liberating.

Authenticity is the most beautiful attire.

The world needs who you were born to be.

Being yourself is the ultimate freedom.

Your individuality is your magic.

Authentic souls are magnetically beautiful.

Your story matters, don't edit it.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Celebrate your quirks; they make you, you.

There's a power in being authentically you.

In your truth, you'll find your tribe.

Originality trumps the best imitation.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Your authenticity is your signature.

The more you are real, the more you are rare.

Trust your journey and own your story.

Life is too short to be someone else.

Don't dilute yourself for any person or reason.

To thine own self be true.

It's okay to be your kind of perfect.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Live out loud and in full color.

No one can play your role better than you.

You are your own masterpiece in progress.

Remember, an original is worth more than a copy.

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world.

True beauty is wearing your authenticity like a crown.

Never apologize for being uniquely you.

Celebrate the unrepeatable miracle you are.

The strongest force is a person undeniably themselves.

Being genuine is more important than being accepted.

Don't let the world change your inner essence.

True to yourself is the best kind of cool.

It's a joy to let your authentic spirit shine.

Your vibe attracts your tribe.

Being real is a superpower.

It's brave to be you in a world of masks.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

Dare to bare your soul and be you.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It's not your job to be what others expect.

In your own lane, there's no traffic.

The greatest act of courage is to be and own all that you are.

Being yourself is the prettiest thing you can be.

Show the world the real magic you possess.

You were born an original, don't die a copy.

Be proud of the unique tune you bring.

Authenticity is a collection of choices.

Stop trying to fit in when you were born to stand out.

Comparison is the thief of joy and authenticity.

Your self-worth isn't determined by others.

There's a special place for those who choose authenticity.

Don't trade your authenticity for someone else's approval.

Every time you show your true self, you shine.

The best thing you can wear is your own skin.

Stay true, and you'll have less competition.

Be fearlessly authentic.

It's beautiful to be true and real.

Your uniqueness is your superpower.

Let the world see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky you.

The only person you should try to be is a better version of yourself.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process.

Embrace your quirks; they're your strengths.

Being true to ourselves is the best commitment.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Accept no one's definition of your life.

Life becomes easier when you just be yourself.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world.

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty.

Being different isn't a bad thing.

Stand firm in your authenticity.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.

Just be yourself. Let people see the real you.

Be the best version of you.

Your individuality is what makes you legendary.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

To be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Don't be afraid to be the full package of who you are.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Being yourself is the only way to find out who truly cares.

Your best competition is the reflection in the mirror.

Don't seek to be someone else. Your uniqueness is your strength.

Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and loved more than you know.

Being yourself is better than being fake perfect.

Embrace yourself, your flaws, your quirks.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Stay true to your values and be real.

Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision, be bold and share it.

Never dull your shine for others.

Trust yourself, and you'll know how to live authentically.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The best way to predict the future is to create it by being you.

The best project you'll ever work on is you.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

Let yourself be seen, heard, and valued for your authentic self.

Never forget that you are one of a kind.

By being yourself, you are beautiful.

Remember, every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all come.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

You are a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do will never forget you.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.

Just be you, be beautiful, and live life on your own terms.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

The best accessory a girl can own is confidence.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

You are enough just as you are.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Just because they disagree doesn't mean you ain't right.

Be yourself; who else is better qualified?

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the best version of themselves.

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

Imitation is suicide.

Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

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.

I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

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

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.

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

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else's definition of beautiful and started being my own.

My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin

Just be you. Do what you love. I've learned that in the end, you can't make everyone happy no matter what you say or do, some people will never be happy or like you.

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

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

The hardest battle in life is to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you like everybody else.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

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

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the best version of themselves.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

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

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift… YOU!

You are enough just as you are.

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

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

What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Our time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Always remember that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

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

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

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

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you express by the way you dress and the way to live.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

I think the hardest person to love is yourself.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do.

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

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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

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

I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Where's your will to be weird?

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

It is so beautiful to be loved as oneself. It is the sunrise in one's heart.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

Never apologize for being yourself.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

I've always loved butterflies because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

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.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I'm doing it myself.