Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
Being Yourself quotes
Being Yourself
984 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Be yourself; everyone else is taken."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
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"To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself."
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"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"
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"If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be."
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
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"Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness"
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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
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"Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn."
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"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
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"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
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"Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself"
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
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"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."
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"Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets."
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"Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication."
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"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."
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"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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