Inspirational be yourself quotes

Last Updated on 30/11/2024

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Discover inspirational be yourself quotes to enhance one of the most difficult journeys to define and become the best of our version.

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Inspiring quotes for being yourself

Anyone can become anything with hard work, persistence, and loyalty. Maybe I’ve read too much literature from my childhood to embrace so optimistic beliefs. But the difficult part is to define who you are. And become the one you are made for, despite the conditions, the obstacles, or different opinions. So, in other words, be careful what you wish for.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.”

― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.”

― Leo Buscaglia

“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was no there before.“

― Edwin Elliot

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

― Coco Chanel, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman

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More inspiring quotes

“Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost because no one wants people worth more than themselves.”

― Peter V. Brett, The Warded Man

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

― Lao Tzu

“What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“If you don’t know who you truly are, you’ll never know what you really want.”

― Roy T. Bennett

“Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.”

― Mrs. Oliphant

“Very few people do this anymore. It’s too risky. First of all, it’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That’s the hardest thing to find.”

― E.L. Konigsburg

“Originals cost more than imitations.”

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

This post is a tribute to one of my favorite singers, Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell was the frontman singer, musician, and songwriter of Soundgarden and Audioslave rock bands. And, he had participated in many other brilliant projects. So, all these days after hearing about his death on the news, his song “Be Yourself” is on my mind. It says “Be yourself is all that you can do“.

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