Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dag Hammarskjold

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star!

Candace Bushnell

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Meryl Streep

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

Meryl Streep

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Alice Hoffman

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

D. H. Lawrence

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Conrad Aiken

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you

Alexander McQueen

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

E. L. Konigsburg

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Douglas Adams

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

Donna Tartt

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

Donald Glover

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

Don Rickles

Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

Dale Carnegie

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

Clive Barker

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

e. e. cummings

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

David Archuleta

Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.

David Archuleta

The best thing you can do to set yourself apart is just be yourself. If you're fake, you know people find out who you are later, it's like, 'Well that's not who we thought you were.' Being yourself is where you feel most comfortable and people get, you know, they feel that connection the best. That's the best way to go. You always have to be yourself.

Darren Criss

I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.

Curtis Jackson

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Doc Watson

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

Doc Watson

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,

Anderson Cooper

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Cillian Murphy

I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Anne Hathaway

I think the only thing in life that you really have to worry about is how you treat other people. If you mess up and treat someone else badly, you apologize, and you don't apologize for anything else. Be yourself and go for it.