Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? – Ian Wallace
Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. – Steve Maraboli
The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore. – C. JoyBell C.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard M. Baruch
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. – Allen Ginsberg
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself. – Harvey Fierstein
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. – Rita Mae Brown
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. – Lao Tzu
Be yourself—not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be. – Henry David Thoreau
Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are. – Lady Gaga
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. – Rumi
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. – Steve Maraboli
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. – Philip Pullman
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop. – Cassandra Clare
I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t. – Marilyn Monroe
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. – Santosh Kalwar
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. – Dave Pelzer
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else. – Christina Perri
Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself. – Leo Howard
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more. – Anne Hathaway
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton
Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. – Gianni Versace
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