Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Urie

What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.

Sidney Sheldon

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Sheridan Smith

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Nick Jonas

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

Skylar Astin

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.

Rajneesh

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Rajneesh

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Rajneesh

Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor - and spread it to as many people as possible. People are miserable. Help them to laugh a little, to sing a little, to dance a little.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

Michael Moore

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Marcus Buckingham

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

Kimi Raikkonen

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Michael Ian Black

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Ray Bradbury

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Eric Hoffer

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Emraan Hashmi

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

Emmy Rossum

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Emmy Rossum

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

James Altucher

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

Henry Rollins

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

Mary Ellen Mark

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself.

John Updike

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

John Ritter

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

Laura Fraser

You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.

George Gissing

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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

Lucas Black

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Sherry Lansing

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

Nicki Minaj

I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

Nora Roberts

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Miranda Lambert

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.