Not Being Yourself Quotes:

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

- Eda LeShan

topic: Being Yourself, Want, Not Being Yourself

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Being Single, True To Oneself, Not Being Yourself

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Being Weird

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself

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

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Men, Finding Your Path, Weariness

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Philosophy, Inspiration, Choices, Choices Made, Daily Choices

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Imitation, Arise, Absurdity, Inspirations Being Yourself, Lexicographer

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

- Walter Kaufmann

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Judgment, Rabbi, Not Being Yourself

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

- Janeane Garofalo

source: "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction". Book by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, April 27, 1999.

topic: Being Yourself, Inspire, Individuality, Life Path, Just Being You

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

- Robert Breault

topic: Being Yourself, Skills, Life Is Hard, Being Authentic, Not Being Yourself

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

- Philip Pullman

source: Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

topic: Change, Being Yourself, Life Changing, Self Determination, Just Being You

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

- Fanny Brice

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, World, Should, Just Being You, Inspirations Being Yourself

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Self Determination, Just Being You

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Trust, Betrayal, Life Regret, True To Oneself

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.

- Barbara Cook

topic: Being Yourself, Essence, Competition, Inspirations Being Yourself, True To Oneself

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

- Virginia Satir

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking, Self Determination, Perceived Self

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself

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

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real, Full Of Yourself, Thinking About Yourself

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

- Andre Gide

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love And Hate, Trustworthiness

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin

topic: Positive, Being Yourself, Strong Women, Empowering Women, Women Equality

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

- Jim Morrison

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Inspirations Being Yourself, Pretense

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

- David Carradine

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself, Best Poetry, True To Oneself

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Life, Change, Wise, Power Of The Mind, Not Being Yourself

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

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Martial Arts Inspirational, Instructors

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

- Edwin Bailey Elliott

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

topic: Positive, Confidence, Courage, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Old Things, Not Being Yourself

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

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Bullying, Just Being You, Geese

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

- Samuel Johnson

source: 1750-2 In The Rambler.

topic: Funny, Life, Being Yourself, Display, Not Being Yourself

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "You Learn by Living".

topic: Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself, Individual Responsibility, International Women's Day

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Being Yourself, Heart, Moon, Self Assuredness, Not Being Yourself

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Being Yourself, Fun, Mean, Gusto, Not Being Yourself

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

- Reese Witherspoon

topic: Being Yourself, Joy, Actors, Transforming Yourself, Not Being Yourself

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

- Dennis Wholey

topic: Being Yourself, Feelings, Not Being Yourself

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

- Nick Jonas

topic: Being Yourself, School, Kids, Cool Kid, Not Being Yourself