Top 100 To Be True To Yourself Quotes
#1. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.
Alan Sugar
#2. You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#3. Wanting to be true to yourself ... Is just an act of self-satisfaction.
Aya Kanno
#5. You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
Kevin Costner
#6. When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place.
Austin Dillon
#7. Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.
Robin Sharma
#8. As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.
Shakti Gawain
#9. Very early I learned that you have to be true to yourself about what you care about--what you believe in. If you're not, you have nothing at all. You have to listen to that bird inside that tells you what's right. Patrick Swayze
Sue Tabashnik
#10. You're going to lose your life anyway. It may be now. It may be decades from now. But at some point it's going to happen, and you have no idea when or how. So it's important to be true to yourself at every moment.
Brad Warner
#11. The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.
Garth Nix
#12. I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
Donny Osmond
#13. It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.
Jenny Hubbard
#14. All of us evolve everyday! The more we introspect and try to gather ourselves, the more rapid will be the pace of our evolution. The only thing to keep in mind is to be true to yourself.
Ackshat Deoli
#15. I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
George Osborne
#16. A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
Tom Ford
#17. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Stephen Gaskin
#18. It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.
Nicole Polizzi
#20. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
#21. If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you'll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person ... has ever done great things because they played it safe. You've got to be true to yourself.
Carson Kressley
#22. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle
#23. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.
Jandy Nelson
#24. Listen to me. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. You always have been very brave that way and I pray you always will be. It's your responsibility, Noah. Remember that.
Jandy Nelson
#25. You have to be true to yourself and remain humble. Whether you win or lose, you've got to treat everyone the same, and be who you are.
Randy Couture
#26. One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.
Ramsey Campbell
#27. Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres
#29. Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
Win Butler
#30. Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.
Yvon Chouinard
#31. Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
John Wooden
#32. I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
Austin Stowell
#33. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Virat Kohli
#34. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
Thornton T. Munger
#35. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#36. Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#37. Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
John Wooden
#38. I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
Ronnie Montrose
#40. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
Friedrich St. Florian
#41. Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences.
Maria Erving
#42. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
#43. None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
Saadi
#44. Be true to yourself and follow your heart. Never bury yourself in disappointments or mistakes but learn from them and simply don't give it your energy. Focus on the positive and embrace the miracles life gives you. It's call the gift of HOPE.
Jes Fuhrmann
#45. Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
Philippe Petit
#46. And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.
Nikki Rowe
#47. Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.
Billy Idol
#49. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
Rajneesh
#50. Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself
Josei Toda
#51. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#52. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
Jennifer DeLucy
#53. The biggest challenge is to not be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.
Tena Desae
#54. Keep moving forward and be true to yourself. You are the only one who can ensure your own happiness.
Carine McCandless
#55. In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance ... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
Marjane Satrapi
#56. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
#57. Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.
John Wooden
#58. Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#59. Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
Tullian Tchividjian
#60. Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.
Meagan Good
#61. Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying.
Sam Owen
#62. The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
#63. A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic.
You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.
Sarah Cross
#64. Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!
Guy Finley
#65. If you're a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don't hate them; you just have to be strategic about when you expose yourself to them - like the sun.
Amy Schumer
#66. The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
Mary J. Blige
#67. Life isn't about trying to conform to someone else's idea of what you should be. Life is about being true to yourself, and kind to all those who aren't quite ready to be true to themselves yet." "I
Jenni James
#68. If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
Robert De Niro
#69. Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
David Lynch
#70. Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
Samuel Richardson
#71. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
Eugene V. Debs
#72. Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.
Steve Maraboli
#73. Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
Nora Roberts
#75. When you are true to yourself and loving, you may not win today but still be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#76. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#77. The only thing you don't have the power to change is your genetics. And someday even that won't be true.
Dan Pearce
#78. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them ... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.
Michael A. Singer
#79. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.
C. Nzingha Smith
#80. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.
Nikki Rowe
#81. I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.
Anthony Evans
#82. Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
Diego Boneta
#83. Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.
Jeff Garcia
#84. If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
Nic Pizzolatto
#85. We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves ... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more ...
Jay Woodman
#87. Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
Steve Pavlina
#88. When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.
Stephen Richards
#89. You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.
Elizabeth Scott
#90. I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.
John Green
#91. Always be loving, always be kind, always be true to yourself, because it matters.
Debasish Mridha
#92. You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
Julia Roberts
#93. Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.
Gregory David Roberts
#94. Sense of worth and self-confidence comes when you accept yourself as you are. not when you're trying to be what other people expect.
Auliq Ice
#95. Be true to yourself and don't live your life according to other people's dreams and wants.
Ambra Celeste
#96. Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Natalie Merchant
#97. To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.
Natalie Wee
#98. The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.
Paul Monette
#99. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#100. You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.
Richard Bach