Being Yourself Quotations | Page 2

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

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.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

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.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

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

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

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

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.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something,

What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.

Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

Don't be anything you don't want to be, always be yourself.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

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

A lot of people forget that their individuality is what makes them so special. Growing up, there's a lot of pressure to be normal. but normal isn't as fun as being yourself. And it's those things about you that really draw people to you.

Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.