Being yourself is one of the best things you can do for yourself in life. It starts with loving yourself for who you are and not trying to be someone else. A healthy sense of self-esteem can take you very far in life. Here are some good quotes about being yourself.
Quotes About Loving Yourself
1. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
2. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis
3. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Buddha
5. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ” – M. Scott Peck
6. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
7. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
8. “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” – Elizabeth Gaskell
9. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter
10. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Washington Thurman
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11. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
12. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
14. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
15. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen
16. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
17. “Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one’s best.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
18. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
19. “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
20. “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
21. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas
22. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
23. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
24. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
25. “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
26. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
27. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
28. “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
30. “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff
31. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
32. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown
33. “She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.” – Anais Nin
34. “It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” – Sidney J. Harris
35. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
36. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field
37. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
39. “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer
40. “When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
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41. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young
42. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
43. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
44. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
45. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
46. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
47. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao-Tzu
48. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
49. “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb
50. “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith
51. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
52. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde
53. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – André Gide
Quotes About Yourself
54. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” – Andre Gide
55. “Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in..” – Janeane Garofalo
56. “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” – Angelina Jolie
57. “An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.” – Balzac
58. “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
59. “Follow your own star!” – Dante Alighieri
60. “You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.” – Tegan Quin
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61. “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
62. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare
63. “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
64. “Where’s your will to be weird?” – Jim Morrison
65. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”11 – Bernard M. Maruch
66. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
67. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
68. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg
69. “I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.” – Bobby Brown
70. “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
71. “Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.” – Steve Mariboli
72. “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
73. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
74. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde
75. “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” – David Carradine
76. “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
77. “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
78. “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” – Andre Berthiaume
79. “One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.” – Oscar Wilde
80. “Faithless To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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81. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou5
82. “There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.” – Anton Chekhov
83. “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
84. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
85. “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” – Homer
86. “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
87. “Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.” – Gerard Way
88. “Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
89. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
90. “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” – Johann von Goethe
91. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
92. “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 who support and love you, just as you are.” – Jaeda deWalt
93. “If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.” – Kelly Liang
94. “To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono
95. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman
96. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss
97. “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
98. “Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”6 – Steve Jobs
99. “Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.” – Genesis P-Orridge
100. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi
101. “ If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul
102. “They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.” – Lady Gaga
103. “ I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” – Coco Chanel
