Quotes About Being Yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  

James Matthew Barrie

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. 

Homer

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.  

Shirley MacLaine

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. 

 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth. 

Benjamin Disraeli 

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.  

Henri Frederic Amiel 

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.  

Tony Robbins

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. 

Shakti Gawain

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

Oscar Wilde