Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyle Lovett

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

Lydia M. Child

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Louis Kronenberger

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Liz Phair

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Melissa Bank

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Nikki Giovanni

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

Nicole Richie

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

Nicki Minaj

I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.

Matt Damon

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Mary Lou Williams

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

John Green

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

John Green

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

Matt Groening

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

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.

Christina Perri

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

Gerard Way

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

George Meredith

We are betrayed by what is false within

Friedrich Nietzsche

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Robert Holden

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

Jonathan Davis

Be yourself, let you come through.

Kate Bosworth

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

Terry Goodkind

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Tennessee Williams

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

Simone de Beauvoir

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Reese Witherspoon

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Ruby Rose

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

Rush Limbaugh

You have to be yourself. You have to go up and you just have to do it.

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 Pattinson

I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!

Walt Kelly

You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.