1. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

- G.K. Chesterton

2. Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.

- Al Roker

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

- Homer

4. One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.

- Oscar Wilde

5. About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.

- Rita Mae Brown

6. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

- Allen Ginsberg

7. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

- Balzac

8. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

- Dolly Parton

9. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.

- Robert Greene

10. The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

- Peter Thiel

11. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you’re different than anyone else.

- Tony Bennett

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

- Bertrand Russell

14. When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely.

- Paul Graham

15. I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

16. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

- David Carradine

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

18. This above all: to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

19. You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period.

- David Goggins

20. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. The secret to success is to be yourself.

- S. Sreesanth

22. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

- Marilyn Monroe

23. They can’t scare me if I scare them first.

- Lady Gaga

24. To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Bernard Baruch

26. Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

- Gerard Way

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

- Oscar Wilde

28. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

29. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

30. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

- Steve Maraboli

31. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

- Lao Tzu

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

- Maya Angelou

33. Don’t let other people decide who you are.

- Bob Goff

34. You change the world by being yourself.

- Yoko Ono

35. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

- Gianni Versace

36. Where’s your will to be weird?

- Jim Morrison

37. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

- Dr. Seuss

38. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

- Judy Garland

39. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

- William Shakespeare

40. If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

- RuPaul

41. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

42. Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.

- Angelina Jolie

43. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

44. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

- John F. Kennedy

45. Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

- Steve Jobs

46. Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody.

- Nike

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

- Coco Chanel

48. The world just wants your authentic truth.

- Gabby Bernstein

49. Consult your conscience; rather than popular opinion.

- Pubilius Syrus

50. Don’t worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

- Mariano Rivera

51. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

- Brian Tracy

52. We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

- Andre Berthiaume

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

55. If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.

- Kelly Liang

56. You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves.

- Mooji

57. If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.

- Marc Newsom

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

- Janeane Garofalo

59. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

- Bindi Irwin

60. Large groups are no place for smart people.

- Naval Ravikant

61. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.

- Jim Morrison

62. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

- Carl Jung

63. 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.

- E.E. Cummings

64. It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

- Dolly Parton

65. You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

- Gabby Douglas

66. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

67. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

- Katie McGarry

68. Appear as you are, be as you appear.

- Rumi

69. Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.

- Jaeda deWalt

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

- Bono

71. Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself.

- Bella Thorne

72. They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.

- Kurt Cobain

73. I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

- Socrates

74. Only dead fish go with the flow.

- Derek Sivers

75. When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.

- Epictetus

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

77. There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

- Anton Chekhov

78. No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

- Buckminster Fuller

79. You’ve got to be yourself, and if you’re not, you’re a phony. It comes shining through if you’re not careful.

- Jack Harbaugh

80. Never apologize for being yourself.

- Paolo Coelho

81. Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

- Roy T. Bennett,?The Light in the Heart

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

- Andre Gide

83. When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

- Picasso

84. Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you, and stay.

- Will Smith

85. 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

86. Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

- Hermann Hesse

87. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

- J. B. Priestley

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

- Philip Pullman

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

- Bruce Lee

90. Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

- Steve Mariboli

91. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

- Rita Mae Brown