Being Yourself Quotes, Sayings about originality
+61You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
- John Mason
+31Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
- Julius Charles
+27There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
+25If you don’t like my words, don’t listen. If you don’t like my appearance, don’t look. If you don’t like my actions, turn your head; It’s as simple as that.
- Anonymous
+19I never wanted to be different; I just wanted to be me.
- Anonymous
+13Why live to please others? I mean, it’s your life. If you aren’t happy with it, what’s the use in living?
- Anonymous
+11He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
- Raymond Hull
+11We are betrayed by what is false within.
- George Meredith
+11Originality is a by product of sincerity.
- Marianne Moore
+11The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow
+11It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- Anonymous
+11Enjoy who you are. Don’t hate yourself for what you aren’t.
- Anonymous
+9One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
+9Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.
- Anonymous
+7Most people are other people.Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
+7If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+7All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+7Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
+7To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde
+7The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
- Anonymous
+7If we cannot be ourselves, there is no need for a mirror.
- Anonymous
+7It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- Anonymous
+5Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
- Samuel Johnson
+5The greatest success is being yourself.
- Anonymous
+5I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
- John Mayer