Being Yourself Quotes

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

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

John Mason

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

Tom Masson

...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Carl von Clausewitz

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

Desiderius Erasmus