Not Being Yourself Quotes

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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

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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

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

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

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

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

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

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

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.