Being Yourself Quotes

A woman is only a woman.
Rudyard Kipling

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Frederick Buechner

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
Marilyn Manson

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
Tom Robbins

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

Who do you like better -- me or Tom Cruise.
Val Kilmer

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
Robert Plant

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

I always play women I would date.
Angelina Jolie

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel Castro

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
Cher

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
Titus

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

I always say don't make plans, make options.
Jennifer Aniston

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
Jennifer Aniston

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty

And say my glory was I had such friends.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
John Donne

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
E. E. Cummings

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

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
Shania Twain

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
Simon Cowell

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
Ben Folds

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas