(56 quotes found)
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
Anna Quindlen
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
Douglas Bader
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else”
Judy Garland
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde