Being Yourself Quotes - Page 31

• The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

  Ken Robinson

  Elements, Compulsion, Discovering

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• Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Heart, Fate, Blow

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• There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

  Neil Strauss

  Fashion, Order, Personality

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• And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, Knowing, People

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.212, John Wiley & Sons

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• Feet on ground,
  Heart in hand,
  Facing forward,
  Be yourself.

  Jann Arden

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Song: Good Mother, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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• Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Growing Up, Fun, Pressure

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• Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

  Christina Grimmie

  Stupid, Dumb, Trying

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

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• Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

  Eric Cantona

  Motivational, Soccer, Advice

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• It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Hard Work, Empowering

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• The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.

  Enos Mills

  Inspirational, Hope, Courage

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• The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

  Tom Krause

  Sight, Way, Compare

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• I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Humility, People, Judging

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• When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.25, Granta Books

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• There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Voice, Use

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

  Patrick Stump

  Rocks, Sound, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2012

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• Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

  Patrick Stump

  Mom, Love You, Self Love

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• In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?':
  Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

  Patrick Stump

  Flirting, People, Desire

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• It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

  Guy Finley

  Important, Seems

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 06, 2012

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• Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
  The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

  Guy Finley

  Thinking, People, Shining

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 21, 2016

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• Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Regret, Play, Pleasant

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• The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

  Yusef Lateef

  Voice, Challenges, Facts

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• Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Stars, Unique, Champion

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Believe, Negativity, World

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