Being Yourself Quotes - Page 7

• I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

  Andrew Mason

  Inspiration, Long, People

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• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

  Rick Scott

  Acceptance, Florida, Sacred

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• Who were you before you put yourself last.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Lasts

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• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Being Single, Men, Want

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Being Single, Heart

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

  Barbara Cook

  Inspirational, Courage, Essence

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• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat

  Howard Zinn

  Knowing, Meditation, Path

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• Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Hot, Just Being, Sexiness

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

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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Chaos, Chaos In The World, Rejecting

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

  Angelina Jolie

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  B. B. King

  Music, Guitar, Idols

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• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  Dan Marino

  Girl, Sports, People

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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

  Brian Molko

  Individuality, Proud, Flattery

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• Where's your will to be weird?

  Jim Morrison

  Being Weird, Weirdness

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Style, Trends

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

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• Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

  Emmy Rossum

  Scary, Wonder, Accepted

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Honesty

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• Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

  Susan Piver

  Confidence, Buddhist, Intelligent

  "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

  Antonio Machado

  Being Single, Men, Essence

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

  Robert Breault

  Being Single, Effort, Persons

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• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Single, Individuality, Innocence

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Positive, Happiness, Being Single

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• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Men, Be True To Yourself

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.129

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