Be Yourself Quotes

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

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

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

4. “Be yourself. Create your own unique style.”

5. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

6. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

7. “Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.”

8. “Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.”

9. “Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.”

10. “Be yourself, but always your better self.”

11. “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

12. “Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.”

13. “Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.”

14. “Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.”

15. “Dr. Seuss said, 'No one can be you-er than you,' and Oscar Wilde said, 'Be yourself because everyone else is taken.' So I just try to continue to be who I am and don't change that. And I'm a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.”

16. “The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.”

17. “Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.”

18. “The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.”

19. “Be yourself and set the trend. Don't follow.”

20. “Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.”

21. “Be yourself. The world worships the original.”

22. “Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.”

23. “It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.”

24. “I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.”

25. “Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!”

26. “What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”

27. “I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'”

28. “There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.”

29. “Nobody's perfect, so don't go out there and try to act like you got to live a perfect life. Be yourself, and be happy with it.”

30. “Be yourself. Unapologetically.”

31. “This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.”

32. “The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.”

33. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

34. “I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.”

35. “You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”

36. “Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.”

37. “The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.”

38. “Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.”

39. “My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.”

40. “My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.”

41. “A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.”

42. “There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.”

43. “Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.”

44. “Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.”

45. “Be yourself, let you come through.”

46. “If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.”

47. “You have to be yourself.”

48. “Always be yourself… unless you suck.”

49. “Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.”

50. “It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.”

51. “I've found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.”

52. “You can learn from others but you have to be yourself. You can't start out with the idea that you have to copy others, you have to play to your strengths.”

53. “It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.”

54. “Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'”

55. “I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.”

56. “You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.”

57. “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

58. “Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.”

59. “There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”

60. “You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.”

61. “In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.”

62. “You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.”

63. “If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.”

64. “I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.”

65. “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.”

66. “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.”

67. “Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.”

68. “I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.”

69. “I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.”

70. “It's always brave to be yourself.”

71. “We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

72. “Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.”

73. “Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.”

74. “I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.”

75. “Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.”

76. “Be yourself. It's really important not to try and be someone else.”

77. “I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.”

78. “Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.”

79. “The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

80. “Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.”

81. “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.”

82. “In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.”

83. “I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going to be a long day.' I think you just try to be unique and try to be yourself, and if something good comes of that, then great.”

84. “It's very, very important to be yourself, and that's the kind of message that I want to get across in my character as well. On TV, that's the message that I want to get across to fans of all ages, really: To get somewhere, you just have to be yourself. Don't ever change for anyone.”

85. “At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.”

86. “I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.”

87. “A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”

88. “I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.”

89. “I think it's quite natural as an actor to compare yourself to how well other people are doing and how other people might've played that role you auditioned for. There's a lot of comparison you can do as an actor, which is natural, because it's a competitive industry. However, we're all individuals, so you can only ever be yourself.”

90. “Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'”

91. “You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.”

92. “To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.”

93. “I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it's okay to be yourself, that it's okay to be a brash yellow girl and to be a strong and brave woman.”

94. “I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'”

95. “It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.”

96. “You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.”

97. “After doing films like 'Krrish,' 'Bang Bang,' and 'Mohenjo Daro,' 'Kaabil' is one film where you can't lie at all. You can't be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.”

98. “My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.”

99. “You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.”

100. “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

101. “Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.”

102. “I think my very best piece of advice is be yourself.”

103. “You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.”

104. “My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.”

105. “I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.”

106. “Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

107. “You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.”

108. “Be yourself, you are who you are and be proud of it. And rely on your friends and family.”

109. “I believe the best friendships are forged with those you can be yourself with.”

110. “I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time… and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.”

111. “Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.”

112. “A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.”

113. “I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.”

114. “Be yourself and work your tail off at whatever your job is,and people will notice.”

115. “I have a message about how you should completely be yourself and not give a damn what everyone thinks about you. Look how you like; you're amazing how you are.”

116. “But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”

117. “You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.”

118. “Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.”

119. “I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.”

120. “Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.”

121. “Be yourself, take control of your life.”

122. “Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'”

123. “Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.”

124. “I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.”

125. “What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.”

126. “I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.”

127. “I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.”

128. “At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?”

129. “Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!”

130. “You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.”

131. “I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.”

132. “I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.”

133. “It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.”

134. “It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.”

135. “To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!”

136. “Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people… Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.”

137. “The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'”

138. “I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.”

139. “I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.”

140. “Remember to always be yourself.”

141. “Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.”

142. “I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.”

143. “I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'”

144. “Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.”

145. “Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.”

146. “Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.”

147. “I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.”

148. “I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.”

149. “You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.”

150. “The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.”

151. “Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.”

152. “I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.”

153. “Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.”

154. “It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.”

155. “The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.”

156. “If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.”

157. “There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.”

158. “The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.”

159. “Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.”

160. “I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.”

161. “When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.”

162. “When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.”

163. “I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.”

164. “'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.”

165. “The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.”

166. “Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.”

167. “For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.”

168. “When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'”

169. “'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.”

170. “You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.”

171. “TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.”

172. “The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.”

173. “My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.”

174. “Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'”

175. “I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it's perfectly normal.”

176. “Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.”

177. “By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.”

178. “Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.”

179. “My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.”

180. “It's not easy to do morning TV. A lot of people think you just show up and be yourself, but one of the hardest things to do is be yourself when the camera comes on.”

181. “The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.”

182. “Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.”

183. “Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.”

184. “Be yourself. Don't try too hard - it shows.”

185. “Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.”

186. “I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.”

187. “The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.”

188. “I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.”

189. “I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.”

190. “Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.”

191. “Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.”

192. “The biggest criticism would be buying clothes that are too big or trying too hard. I tend to like things a little leaner and more formfitting. I believe personal style often outweighs fashion. Just be yourself.”

193. “In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.”

194. “I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.”

195. “I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.”

196. “Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.”

197. “My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.”

198. “Be yourself, whatever it is. Even if it's scary.”

199. “You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.”

200. “Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.”

201. “I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.”

202. “With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.”

203. “It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.”

204. “Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.”

205. “When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.”

206. “Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.”

207. “As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.”

208. “I have this exercise that I propose to everybody: Hug a tree and complain for a minimum 15 minutes. Be yourself, and do something that you really feel deeply.”

209. “To transcend and be yourself… I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.”

210. “What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.”

211. “I think that a lot of the time, we get in our own heads and make up what other people are thinking, but no one actually cares about the thing you think they care about. You just gotta take that weight off your shoulders and be nice to yourself and be yourself. People will fall in love with who that is.”

212. “You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.”

213. “You have to definitely be yourself in order to stand out.”

214. “Be yourself. And every person is unique.”

215. “It's okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.”

216. “I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.”

217. “I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.”

218. “You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.”

219. “I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.”

220. “You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!”

221. “I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.”

222. “My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.”

223. “I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.”

224. “I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.”

225. “I just want to show people that the best thing you could ever do for yourself is be yourself.”

226. “It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.”

227. “I feel these shows allow you to be yourself, this is why I like to be part of them. Also, reality shows have a much bigger reach and provide a bigger platform for an actor.”

228. “I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.”

229. “Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.”

230. “When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.”

231. “Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.”

232. “I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.”

233. “To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.”

234. “Be yourself and work as hard as you can. Don't let anybody influence you to not be yourself.”

235. “Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself.”

236. “Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.”

237. “The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.”

238. “Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It's much harder to get back on and get a job when you're unemployed. But from my own experience, my advice would be keep the faith, be yourself, and don't be afraid to say 'no.' It's the only power we have!”

239. “It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.”

240. “I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences… be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.”

241. “I have these wonderful friends, and they're supportive and loving, and you can really be yourself around them in a way some people even can't with their partners.”

242. “I don't know what the secret to doing standup well is, but I do know the goal is to be yourself as much as possible. And working harder than everyone else.”

243. “Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'”

244. “Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.”

245. “You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.”

246. “You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.”

247. “You just gotta be yourself and don't hold anything back just because you're a woman.”

248. “The secret to success is to be yourself.”

249. “The way that you are when you're allowed to be yourself is very different from when you're, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You're never given the breathing space.”

250. “I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.”

251. “I just say go for it and be yourself, even if you're scared or nervous, because you'll never know what happens if you don't try.”

252. “You just got to be yourself. That's what people respect more than anything.”

253. “For me, the only way I know how to do this is to be myself. I actually learned that from 'The Dream' Dusty Rhodes. I was trying to be this wrestler, and I was trying to be cool, and Dusty literally told me, 'You've got to be yourself.' That's really how Bayley started, and that is what brought me this far.”

254. “I like social media, as it cuts out the middleman. You can be yourself, you can't be misquoted, and it's also useful for me to get information about my theatre shows across to people.”

255. “I don't blame people or 'pop stars' or whatever for being so quiet, but you can't take it too seriously, especially on social media. It's a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don't blame them for being a bit reserved.”

256. “I think people should feel less restricted by the perimeters of things like 'menswear' and 'womenswear.' It's not something that I really give much credence to when I'm buying clothes. I buy mostly ladies clothes. I think to be yourself, first and foremost, that's the easiest way to think about it.”

257. “It's challenging to judge a TV show because you don't have any lines. You just have to be yourself.”

258. “All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.”

259. “Be creative, have a good time, and be yourself.”

260. “With wrestling, everybody always asks what they can do to get signed or how can they get over. There's no right or wrong answers. That's why I think the best thing you can do is be yourself.”

261. “Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.”

262. “It's not easy to always be yourself.”

263. “I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the ambitions are and what values you stand for, so it's all about staying true to yourself, be yourself.”

264. “Everyone has contributed to the Women's Evolution in their own way, and I hope that my message can just be it's okay to not look like the rest, it's okay to not fit in, it's okay to be yourself and be different.”

265. “I feel like women are so specific and special, that there's no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you're going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.”

266. “When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, 'Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?”

267. “It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.”

268. “If you can be yourself and people like you, you're golden.”

269. “You have to dare to totally be yourself and go 100% with your heart and guts.”

270. “I learned that all you need to do is be yourself.”

271. “It's not a hard job to be yourself.”

272. “You can be yourself in London. If you are a bit different in the way you dress or look it is no problem.”

273. “As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity.”

274. “There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.”

275. “I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do… in this business you have got to be yourself.”

276. “In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.”

277. “Your personal gym should be a place where you can exercise and just be yourself.”

278. “I have a friend called James who is in his 40s and he's still not allowed to swear in front of his mum. I find it strange that you can't be yourself and be open with the one person who brought you into this world.”

279. “When you get minutes and you have the trust of the coaches and guys just letting you play your game and be yourself, it definitely helps.”

280. “You can be yourself and still have fun without crossing the line. Sometimes I feel like today's players don't want to do anything! Come on, be yourself! That's what people want.”

281. “Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.”

282. “I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.”

283. “I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still be a feminist.”

284. “True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.”

285. “If you're on Tinder and you're really trying to look for love, that's going too far. You have to be yourself… and find love at the coffee shop, or in your own community.”

286. “At a track, it's different, there's pressure, things like this, so to be yourself is a bit different.”

287. “We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.”

288. “As an actor, you are used to portraying other characters. You can pick up any mannerism or body language that suits the character. But to be yourself and not look pretentious is a difficult thing to do.”

289. “At the end of the day, you just want to be yourself because people can see when you're not.”

290. “You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.”

291. “Relationships will get you far in this industry. It's about how you move and how you act. Just be yourself.”

292. “If you be yourself, you're good.”

293. “You're sitting at home in a cast or a boot and it's tough, because all you've got is negative thoughts going through your head. Once you start to move and run a little bit, the confidence comes back, and then it's just a matter of time before you come back to be yourself.”

294. “I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.”

295. “I love being online because I feel like you can just be yourself and it's so easy to open up.”

296. “You can't believe how hard it is to be yourself.”

297. “Whether you're going to fail or succeed, you've got to be yourself.”

298. “I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or to be recognized in your job or to move forward in life. You should just be yourself.”

299. “You don't need to be a stereotypical basketball player to be successful. You can be yourself. You can kick it with artists, you can kick it with nerds.”

300. “The only tip I can give is just be yourself, you don't have to copy another song to be popular.”

301. “You can be yourself, you can speak up for what you believe in, and if some people don't like it, it is what it is. Not everyone's going to agree with you.”

302. “My mum gave me lots of advice growing up, but the general theme to everything was 'Be yourself, be consistent.' Whether it was in sport or life generally, it was about treating everyone the same, staying consistent.”

303. “I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.”

304. “Be yourself. Be confident.”

305. “The thing that you have to do is… try to be yourself.”

306. “Nobody told me that you needed to learn to be alone to enjoy to love your own company - to find peace and to be yourself.”

307. “My main lessons with my kids are to be yourself, have confidence in yourself, never give up and be good to people. Those are tools that help you succeed, no matter what it is you're doing.”

308. “I think both my mom and dad, just preached, be yourself every day. Be humble, but obviously have fun with what you do.”

309. “Now I'm telling my story, my thoughts, my music, what I like. So when someone's like 'Be yourself,' it's like who am I? Who is Caleb?”

310. “There's no such thing as a perfect life, first of all, because you always have to keep a struggle - not a struggle, but you can't just sit there, you know? You have to work for it. What makes a perfect life? Just being able to have enough money to live and work and be yourself. Humble things, really.”

311. “Being named captain of France made me so proud. It also really helped me to grow up. It hasn't changed my life or the person that I am, though. When it comes down to it, I think the role requires you to be yourself, above all.”

312. “I constantly feel like I'm chasing after the girl who's on the cover of Elle magazine, rather than who I look at in the mirror every morning. It can be really difficult. But at the same time, it's cool to have aspirations to be yourself.”

313. “Be yourself, tell your truths, and be brave.”

314. “I try and be my authentic self all the time; the good, the bad and mostly the weird. I hope I can instil this in younger women… be yourself and own it.”

315. “It does not matter what you are wearing… who you are as a person makes a statement in itself. So fashion for me is to 'be yourself.'”

316. “My parents were always the ones that remind me that whatever success or accomplishments you're reaching, you still need to stay grounded, and be yourself.”

317. “The biggest piece of advice I got from J.J. is just to be yourself, don't overthink things. Just be yourself, relax and you show people who you really are.”