Best Being Myself Quotes

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

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

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don’t know that I want to. I think I’m just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It’s hard.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

Being myself didn’t work. Being someone else didn’t work. Maybe I just wasn’t meant to have friends.

You can’t please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that’s what it should be about. That’s why I didn’t change my name or anything. It’s not about the name; it’s about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it’s very true. And now I’m just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

What I’ve got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I’m glad things are getting better, but I’m going to push and be pissed off until they’re perfect. That will probably never happen, but I feel some weird duty nonetheless. Even though I can get married in Seattle, I could go to another country and get the death penalty just for being myself-I’m not making music just for fiancés in Seattle.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I’ve just been not getting fired despite being myself.

Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.

I’ve made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It’s very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it’s just not valid. You can use the gossip you’ve heard. You’re not getting it from me.

I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.

I never thought I’d be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It’s very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I’m just being myself.

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn’t happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

Guys I’m kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that’s all just me being myself.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?

It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.

I think especially since going solo it’s pretty clear that I’m completely being myself.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can’t join your gang: you’d think I was a phony and I’d know it.

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

I’m terrified of just being myself because I think it’s boring. I know who I really am and I think it’s boring.

Ask yourself, ‘what’s more important – being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

I always believed in being myself.