Top 100 Quotes About Being Who You Are
#1. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.
Tamera Alexander
#2. Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.
Philip DeFranco
#3. Coffee," I said boldly. "Some people need it in order to function, but being who you are, I wasn't sure if you actually needed anything other than blood and the souls of virgins to make it through the day, so I took a gamble.
Rachel Van Dyken
#4. There's nothing more badass than being who you are.
Darren Criss
#5. Femininity for me means happiness and freedom ... freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
Kate Winslet
#6. I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
Charles R. Swindoll
#7. You're all murdering life ... You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are ... where you are.
Luke Rhinehart
#8. Sometimes being who you are - whoever you are - is hard. Sometimes, you can have it all together and still drive yourself crazy.
Brenna Yovanoff
#9. I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.
Gloria Estefan
#10. We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.
Tim Gunn
#11. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.
Golda Poretsky
#12. Just be yourself," Connor tells him. "I know you probably fail at written word, but in person, you usually ace being who you are."
"I'm going to ignore the part where you fucking insulted me."
Connor grins. "Why? Those are the best parts."
Ryke flips him off.
Krista Ritchie
#13. What is perceived as normal. That makes it other people's failings. Deficits. Not yours. Who the hell sets the standards, huh? Who gets to say how we are supposed to be? Or who we are supposed to be? And how dare anyone make you feel inadequate for being who you are? It's not okay. It pisses me off.
Jessica Park
#15. There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
Daron Malakian
#16. ... don't ever apologize for being who you are. Be gay and be proud.
Amy Kaufman Burk
#17. This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.
Sarah Dessen
#18. What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.
Cassandra Clare
#19. First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia
#21. Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
Lee Siegel
#22. There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
Amy Dickinson
#24. If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
Kim Gordon
#25. Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are
Bobbi Brown
#26. You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
Alicia Keys
#27. Relationship Principle 11
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
Sherry Argov
#28. The doorway to health, higher intelligence and inexhaustible creativity lies in your willingness to live from Source. Risk being who you are meant to be; you are more compassionate, colorful, imaginative, visionary, more sensitive than you think.
Lynne Gordon-Mundel
#29. Don't ever be sorry for being who you are. Most of us go our whole lives not really getting it right, just settling." He tugged a strand of her hair. "Do you have any idea the strength it takes to not settle? To keep pushing and seeking for what works?
Jill Shalvis
#30. Meditation is not a means to an end. Meditation is simply being who you are. Meditation is the rigorous refusal to identify yourself with who you are not.
Yogi Kanna
#31. At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.
Kim Kardashian
#32. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Ram Dass
#33. (The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.)
Jon Acuff
#34. To me, sexy is the confident energy a person produces. sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are. sexy is not just having beautiful lips, legs and arms; its beyond that. sexy is soul.
Karina Smirnoff
#35. There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.
Ken Mehlman
#36. Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions
not just constant sunshiny happiness.
Janet Gonzalez-Mena
#37. Being who you are is so much more important that fitting in will ever be.
Cheryl B. Evans
#38. Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?
Juliette Binoche
#39. It is a pity that being who you truly are requires so much courage. But it does. It takes enormous courage at times. Being who you are, whoever that is, sometimes cannot even be articulated at first, not even to yourself
Anonymous
#40. Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.
Melody Beattie
#41. Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.
Pearl Zhu
#42. What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Don DeLillo
#43. Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.
Adam Lambert
#45. Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
Desmond Tutu
#46. Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just
being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!
Demi Lovato
#48. You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge
J.R. Ward
#49. Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.
Taylor Swift
#50. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.
Daniel Radcliffe
#51. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
Lance Loud
#53. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
Warren Farrell
#54. If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
Laverne Cox
#55. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#56. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.
Dree Hemingway
#57. Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.
Robert Anthony
#58. Love is about having the freedom to be you and allowing each other the freedom to be who they are while being committed.
Sharon Law Tucker
#59. One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
Steve Kanaly
#60. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#61. Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.
Ezra Miller
#62. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I
Elizabeth Bear
#63. It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.
Frederick Lenz
#64. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
Robert Moment
#65. Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.
Dallas Roberts
#66. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#67. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
John Scalzi
#68. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.
Charlemagne Palestine
#70. Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part ... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
Catherine Keener
#71. Sam's eyes wandered up to the camera again. "Are we being recorded?" "Yes." "Who's watching us right now?" The detective sighed. "A couple of really experienced police officers. Actually, I have no idea. Wave if you want to." Sam lifted a hand and wiggled a few fingers.
Jennifer Hillier
#72. I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
Steven R. McQueen
#73. Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story.
Melissa Broder
#74. All children are beautiful: the thing they do with their eyes that seems so dazzling when they take you all in, or seem to take you all in; it's like being looked at by an alien, or a cat - who knows what they see?
Anne Enright
#75. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
Aimee Bender
#76. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.
Eckhart Tolle
#77. You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.
Wayne Dyer
#78. There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us
these are just the hazards of being free.
David Foster Wallace
#79. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#80. The thing about being an outsider ... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
Mike Nichols
#81. Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#82. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.
Shonda Rhimes
#83. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
Oswald Chambers
#84. Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
Earl R. Smith II
#85. What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
Brendan Myers
#86. People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.
Jamie Dornan
#87. We are stronger for the people who leave us, you know? Being able to live without them just shows how much better we are. No one can hold us back but ourselves, and I, for one, am proud of the person I am.
Toni Aleo
#88. In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.
Jenna Marbles
#89. You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
Bernadine Dohrn
#90. It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#91. You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
Kat Graham
#92. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#93. You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.
Matthew Dicks
#94. The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
Toni Morrison
#95. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.
Robin S. Sharma
#96. Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being - and that's very sad. If you're not in love with him, you can understand him.
Banana Yoshimoto
#97. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.
Andrew Neff
#98. Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.
Ellen Miller
#99. Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.
Patricia Briggs
#100. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
Paul Butcher
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