Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

Bethenny Frankel

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

Ashley Tisdale

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Charles R. Swindoll

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

Bill Hicks

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

Chris Cornell

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Ayrton Senna

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

Ayrton Senna

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

Bryant H. McGill

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

Bryant H. McGill

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Bryant H. McGill

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

Carson Kressley

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

Dominika Cibulkova

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Britney Spears

Be fearless in your choices and don't be afraid to be yourself.

Brian Molko

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Brett Hull

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

Anthony Rapp

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

Ben Quayle

Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.

Ben Quayle

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Dennis Potter

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Elbert Hubbard

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Eileen Caddy

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Albert Einstein

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder...

Albert Einstein

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

Adam Lambert

It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.

Daphne Guinness

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

Daniela Bobadilla

Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.

Kurt Vonnegut

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

David Belle

When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.

Dakota Fanning

I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?