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

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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

Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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.

Believe in your flyness…conquer your shyness

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

Allow yourself to transform as many times as you need to be fully happy and free.

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

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.