Quotes on being yourself
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Garland, Judy
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Wilde, Oscar
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Hare, Julius Charles
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Amiel, Henri
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Barrie, James Matthew
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
Brown, Charles R.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Shakespeare, William
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Brice, Fanny
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
Mason, John
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
Kronenberger, Louis
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
Morley, John
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Seuss, Dr.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
de Balzac, Honore
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.
Lawrence, D.H.