Being Yourself Quotes - Page 4

• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Work, Knowing, Risk

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• I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspiration, Thinking, Inspire

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• If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

  Masaru Emoto

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Masaru Emoto (2005). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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  Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

  "Find Out Who You Are and Live That Truth". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2010.

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Men, Hypocrisy

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Yourself, Taken, Book

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Stay Strong, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Being Single, Views

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Self Esteem

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Single, Being Real, I Love Myself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Bullying, Self Esteem

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• 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

  Being Single, Cosmos, Sun

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8420, Delphi Classics

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  Isaac Asimov

  Reality, Believe In Yourself, Men

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• 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.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Lonely

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. 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

  Fashion, Blue Dress, Keys

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

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• What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Single

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