Express Yourself Quotes

• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Confidence

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• Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

  Nelson Mandela

  Happiness, Morning, Live Life

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

  Cee Lo Green

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Writing, Men

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• Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Finding Yourself, Way, Originality

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• To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

  Ai Weiwei

  Needs, Reason

  "Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Time's Person of the Year 2011, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

  Virginia Satir

  Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking

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• But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without being swayed by their opinions, leaving you free to lead life without caring about judgments made by the outside world.

  Kat Von D

  Caring, Thinking, Leaving

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• Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Writing, Editing, Issues

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 25, 2015

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• All great achievements require time.

  Maya Angelou

  Success, Encouraging, Patience

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 27, 2011

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• Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Not Caring, People, Tao Te Ching

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• Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

  Confucius

  Gratitude, Kindness

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• It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Express Yourself Fully", p. 8, 2002.

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• The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

  Aristotle

  Way, Achieve, True Success

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• People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Music Is

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