Famous Quotes & Sayings

May Sarton

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

Maureen McCormick

To be yourself and to learn from your mistakes. If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help. When we were on the show, there was no paparazzi, none of that. I was really lucky that I got to avoid all that.

Marilyn Manson

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

Marilyn Manson

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Marilyn Manson

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Meredith Vieira

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

Masi Oka

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

Michael A. Stackpole

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Michael Josephson

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Marie Lu

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

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.

Nancy Pelosi

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

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.

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.

John C. Maxwell

To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.

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.

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.

Lupe Fiasco

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

Scott Adams

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

Rajneesh

The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn`t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don`t go on copying others signatures.

Robert Holden

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

Taylor Schilling

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.