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60 Be Yourself Quotes – Inspirational

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In these times, it can sometimes be difficult to be yourself and instead of trying to be someone that you are not.

Quotes help a lot of people to get the motivation and courage to do what they want.

Therefore we decided to write this list of 60x Be Yourself Quotes that you can implement in your life in 2020!

60 Best Be Yourself Quotes

1. “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

2. “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” Johann von Goethe

3. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” – Euripides

4. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss

5. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” – Coco Chanel

6. “I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.” – Bobby Brown

7. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” – Andre Gide

8. “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” – Andre Berthiaume

9. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

10. “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” – Johann von Goethe

11. “Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

12. “Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

13. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

14. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

15. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” – Andre Gide

16. “Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.” – Freedom by Osho

17. “Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”  – Mignon McLaughlin

18. “I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.” – Oprah Winfrey

19. “It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.” – The Nice Girl Syndrome

20. “Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.” –Unknown

21. “The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.” – Leo Buscaglia

22. “In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.” – Duke Robinson

23. “We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.” – Olin Miller

24. “Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” – Julius Charles Hare

25. “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

26. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” – Euripides

27. “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

28. “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason

29. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.” – Taylor Swift

30. “Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself.” – Lady Gaga

31. “There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.” – Anthony Rapp

32. “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

33. “Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.” – Nora Roberts

34. “If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.” – Unknown

35. “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

36. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” –You’ll See It When You Believe It by Wayne W. Dyer

37. “Take the time to come home to yourself every day.” – Robin Casarjean

38. “Everybody says find people you can be yourself around. What they don’t tell you is who ‘yourself’ is. This always bothered me. Whenever I tried to ‘be myself’ I could never come up with anything to say. I just froze.” –The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale

39. “I figured out that being yourself isn’t something that just happens. It’s something you create. You have to create yourself.” –The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale

40. “It’s important to know who you are. That’s the easiest way to know who you’re not.” –The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale

41. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut

42. “Your life is yours and yours alone.  Rise up and live it.” – Terry Goodkind

43. “Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.” –The Courage to Be Yourself

44. “One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy.” – The Courage to Be Yourself

45. “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius

46. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”  – E.E. Cummings

47. “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

48. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

49. “In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.” – Duke Robinson

50. “Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli

51. “Why try to be someone you’re not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.” – Robert Brault

52. “If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself.” –Unknown

53. “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” – Anthony Powell

54. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” –Les Brown

55. “If I am not for myself, who will be?” – Pirke Avoth

56. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsberg

57. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
– Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

58. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
– Judy Garland

59. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
– Rumi

60. “Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.”
– Lady Gaga

Do you have any quotes about being yourself that you came up with? Let us know in the comments down below and we might publish your quote!

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