Top 165 Be Yourself Quotes

This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don’t be afraid to be yourself.

I like somebody who’s not so crazy but likes to have a good time… and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, ‘Be yourself.’ That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show you me.

Don’t try to be like somebody else. You’ll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don’t ever get a big head.

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

Don’t be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you’re working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.

I’m not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to ‘play’ sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

The biggest criticism would be buying clothes that are too big or trying too hard. I tend to like things a little leaner and more formfitting. I believe personal style often outweighs fashion. Just be yourself.

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.’

I figure when you get married, it doesn’t matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

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

Be yourself, let you come through.

By the time you’re 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can’t change; you learn to be yourself.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Be yourself, whatever it is. Even if it’s scary.

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it’s important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn’t be ‘try hard.’

You can’t deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.

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.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don’t be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn’t work. You’ll end up in the friend zone.

Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in ‘GQ’ magazine.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

You’ve got to be yourself, and if you’re not, you’re a phony. It comes shining through if you’re not careful.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you’re not, so I’m me, and maybe it’s magnified a bit, but it’s easier just being me.

The way that you are when you’re allowed to be yourself is very different from when you’re, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You’re never given the breathing space.

My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.

Be yourself and set the trend. Don’t follow.

Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day – that’s what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.

I learned that all you need to do is be yourself.

Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It’s much harder to get back on and get a job when you’re unemployed. But from my own experience, my advice would be keep the faith, be yourself, and don’t be afraid to say ‘no.’ It’s the only power we have!

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

It’s not easy to always be yourself.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.

I don’t go, ‘It is now time to change Americans’ perception of Muslims. It’s going to be a long day.’ I think you just try to be unique and try to be yourself, and if something good comes of that, then great.

Be yourself. And if you’re not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It’s like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

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.’

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don’t get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

Your personal gym should be a place where you can exercise and just be yourself.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don’t make music just for other people: make it for you first.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can’t see the crowd most of the time – it’s just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

To transcend and be yourself… I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

For me, the only way I know how to do this is to be myself. I actually learned that from ‘The Dream’ Dusty Rhodes. I was trying to be this wrestler, and I was trying to be cool, and Dusty literally told me, ‘You’ve got to be yourself.’ That’s really how Bayley started, and that is what brought me this far.

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.

Whether you’re going to fail or succeed, you’ve got to be yourself.

Honestly, it’s really fun to be yourself. It’s really fun to be me.

It’s good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

The secret to success is to be yourself.

I feel like I’m making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

Be yourself and work your tail off at whatever your job is,and people will notice.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.

Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.

I think it’s important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else’s look.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you’re in television, you’re lying because you’re just pretending to be yourself much like I’m doing now.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it’s okay to be sincere; it’s okay to be yourself; it’s okay to be real.

When you’re playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

You have to be yourself. You can’t pretend to be somebody else.

I have these wonderful friends, and they’re supportive and loving, and you can really be yourself around them in a way some people even can’t with their partners.

You have to be yourself.

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there’s really nowhere to hide.

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

I think people should feel less restricted by the perimeters of things like ‘menswear’ and ‘womenswear.’ It’s not something that I really give much credence to when I’m buying clothes. I buy mostly ladies clothes. I think to be yourself, first and foremost, that’s the easiest way to think about it.

Most of the time when you’re around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.

The only tip I can give is just be yourself, you don’t have to copy another song to be popular.

Be yourself. You’re okay. And it really doesn’t matter what other people think.

Be yourself and work as hard as you can. Don’t let anybody influence you to not be yourself.

It’s okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.

It’s challenging to judge a TV show because you don’t have any lines. You just have to be yourself.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it’s very cliche, but no one else can do it.

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It’s the healthiest way to be.

Don’t try to fit in or stand out – just be yourself.

Be yourself. It’s really important not to try and be someone else.

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

I’m an actor, that’s what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what’s popular.

Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.

Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Be yourself. If you’re not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you’re not listening, you’re lost. You’re a sheep among wolves.

It’s okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.

I’ve always been drawn to the message of ‘Be yourself. Love yourself.’ I need to be reminded of that all time.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you’ve still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.

I feel like women are so specific and special, that there’s no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you’re going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.

When someone is bullying you, don’t let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

Be yourself. Be confident.

I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it’s much easier than pretending to be something you’re not.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Be yourself, be an individual – people are scared to be themselves.

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That’s what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She’s one of the best female MCs that I’ve heard.

I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don’t worry about if it fits.

I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.

Don’t try to be somebody you’re not because it doesn’t work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they’re involved in public office, it’s just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

You don’t need to be a stereotypical basketball player to be successful. You can be yourself. You can kick it with artists, you can kick it with nerds.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

It’s not a hard job to be yourself.

Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.

Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’

Everyone has contributed to the Women’s Evolution in their own way, and I hope that my message can just be it’s okay to not look like the rest, it’s okay to not fit in, it’s okay to be yourself and be different.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It’s really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

Through life’s ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody – nobody’s opinion – define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

You try to be yourself, do only what you’ve always done and like to do, and right away, you’re tagged as an oddball.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

You can be yourself and still have fun without crossing the line. Sometimes I feel like today’s players don’t want to do anything! Come on, be yourself! That’s what people want.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

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

It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

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

I don’t know what the secret to doing standup well is, but I do know the goal is to be yourself as much as possible. And working harder than everyone else.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don’t try to tell anybody else’s story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn’t, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

What I’d like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

When you get minutes and you have the trust of the coaches and guys just letting you play your game and be yourself, it definitely helps.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

You’ve got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, ‘If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I’m going to be golden.’ It’s not about that. It’s about showing people you can be yourself.

Be yourself, you are who you are and be proud of it. And rely on your friends and family.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn’t, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

Best advice: ‘Just be yourself.’ Worst advice: ‘Just be yourself.’

You try to be yourself, do only what you’ve always done and like to do, and right away, you’re tagged as an oddball.

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.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You’ve never murdered, but your murderer’s rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

Relationships will get you far in this industry. It’s about how you move and how you act. Just be yourself.

I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself – you just had to figure out what that was. You didn’t have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.

I have a message about how you should completely be yourself and not give a damn what everyone thinks about you. Look how you like; you’re amazing how you are.

What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It’s not.

You just gotta be yourself and don’t hold anything back just because you’re a woman.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.

Some people like you, some people don’t. In the end you just have to be yourself.

You don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

You have to dare to totally be yourself and go 100% with your heart and guts.

I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.

It’s always brave to be yourself.

A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.

I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.

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

I love being online because I feel like you can just be yourself and it’s so easy to open up.

I’m so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it’s working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

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.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I don’t blame people or ‘pop stars’ or whatever for being so quiet, but you can’t take it too seriously, especially on social media. It’s a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don’t blame them for being a bit reserved.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

You can’t think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.