Wise Being Yourself Sayings

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
Wise Being Yourself Sayings

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910


Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Famous Being Yourself Sayings

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
Famous Being Yourself Sayings

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


I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing

Being Yourself Quotes

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
Being Yourself Quotes

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel


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


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

Being Yourself Sayings

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak
Being Yourself Sayings

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


Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

Quotes about Being Yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
Quotes about Being Yourself

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine


A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942