250 Be Yourself Quotes
1. "Never apologize for being yourself." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
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2. "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
3. "When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
4. "The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself." (Rita Mae Brown) Click to tweet
5. "Existence wants you to be you." (Osho) Click to tweet
6. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." (Andre Gide) Click to tweet
7. "Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
8. "You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
9. "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else." (R. Buckminster Fuller) Click to tweet
10. "We are the ones we have been waiting for." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
11. "You change the world by being yourself." (Yoko Ono) Click to tweet
12. "What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
13. "He who obeys, does not listen to himself." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
14. "Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody." (Nike) Click to tweet
15. "Be in the world, but don’t let the world be in you. Love, and yet don’t be lost in it. Relate, and yet be alone, utterly alone. Know perfectly well that all relationship is a game: play the game and play it as beautifully as possible and as skillfully as possible." (Osho) Click to tweet
16. "If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world." (Elaine S. Dalton) Click to tweet
17. "Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions." (John Stuart Mill) Click to tweet
18. "Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself – exactly oneself and no one else." (Simone de Beauvoir) Click to tweet
19. "There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." (Ursula K. Le Guin) Click to tweet
20. "Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" (Charles Bukowski) Click to tweet
21. "The world just wants your authentic truth." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
22. "You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves." (Mooji) Click to tweet
23. "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
24. "The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
25. "Can you live completely without ambition, completely without ever comparing yourself with another?" (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
26. "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson) Click to tweet
27. "Do not live to satisfy the expectations of others." (Ichiro Kishimi) Click to tweet
28. "Be nobody’s darling; be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
29. "When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
30. "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
31. "When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people’s opinion, freer, more real." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
32. "Large groups are no place for smart people." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
33. "Just stick to your principles. And rest assured that, if you remain true to them, the same people who made fun of you will come to admire you." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
34. "When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
35. "Don’t let other people decide who you are." (Bob Goff) Click to tweet
36. "A rebel is the one who lives totally according to his own light and risks everything else for his ultimate value of freedom." (Osho) Click to tweet
37. "This above all: to thine own self be true." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet
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38. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." (Coco Chanel) Click to tweet
39. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
40. "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) Click to tweet
41. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
42. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." (Kennedy) Click to tweet
43. "Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
44. "All i want to do is be more like me and be less like you." (Linkin Park) Click to tweet
45. "I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." (Mozart) Click to tweet
46. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet
47. "Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
48. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
49. "They laugh at me because i’m different; i laugh at them because they’re all the same." (Kurt Cobain) Click to tweet
50. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." (Tyrion Lannister) Click to tweet
51. "My philosophy is: it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what i am and i do what i do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." (Anthony Hopkins) Click to tweet
52. "One must know oneself. Even if it does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one’s life, and nothing is more proper." (Blaise Pascal) Click to tweet
53. "You were born god’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
54. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." (E.E Cummings) Click to tweet
55. "I wore black because i liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion – against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of god, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas." (Johnny Cash) Click to tweet
56. "I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live." (Socrates) Click to tweet
57. "Not till we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
58. "The superior man follows nobody else’s path." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
59. "Become who you are." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
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60. "Conformity gets you nowhere." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
61. "Spontaneity is total sincerity." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
62. "Our own life has to be our message." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
63. "I’d rather be a freak than a clone." (Joanne Harris) Click to tweet
64. "Intuition is allergic to conformity." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
65. "Appear as you are, be as you appear." (Rumi) Click to tweet
66. "What the world craves is authenticity." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
67. "It is a waste of energy to follow anybody." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
68. "Stop letting the world keep score for you." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
69. "Train yourself to take nothing personally." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
70. "You are who you are when nobody’s watching." (Stephen Fry) Click to tweet
71. "Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." (Vladimir Nabokov) Click to tweet
72. "Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
73. "To lead others, one must find one’s own direction." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
74. "You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax." (Osho) Click to tweet
75. "We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
76. "Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness." (Allen Ginsberg) Click to tweet
77. "Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable." (Conor McGregor) Click to tweet
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78. "I am not what happened to me, i am what i choose to become." (Carl Jung) Click to tweet
79. "So whatever you want to do, just do it… making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
80. "Accept right now that you are magnificent. Being your real, true, authentic self is what’s most awesome about you." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
81. "Keep being yourself inside you. Keep visualizing what you are aiming for in life. Be patient and know that you will get what you want one day." (Yoko Ono) Click to tweet
82. "It has often been said that a reformation should begin with each man reforming himself." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
83. "You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
84. "Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
85. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet
86. "You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
87. "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself." (Peter Thiel) Click to tweet
88. "If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
89. "When you are in your own lane there is no traffic." (Ashley France) Click to tweet
90. "Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible – then you’ll naturally have an impact." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
91. "“finding yourself” is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. “finding yourself” is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you." (Emily McDowell) Click to tweet
92. "I’m going to do what i want to do. I’m going to be who i really am. And i’m going to figure out what that is." (Stephen Chbosky) Click to tweet
93. "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there." (Gary Snyder) Click to tweet
94. "You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality." (Osho) Click to tweet
95. "I teach you rebellion! Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light." (Osho) Click to tweet
96. "You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
97. "Be the person your dog thinks you are." (Ricky Gervais) Click to tweet
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98. "I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed." (Robert Frost) Click to tweet
99. "Only dead fish go with the flow." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
100. "This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic." (Terry Pratchett) Click to tweet
101. "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
102. "It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world." (Dolly Parton) Click to tweet
103. "If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
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104. "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you." (Kurt Cobain) Click to tweet
105. "If you worry about your reputation you don’t deserve to have one." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
106. "The simplest means of procuring protection from other men is security of quiet solitude and withdrawal from the mass of people." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
107. "Only those who can accept their own annihilation can have the courage to be true individuals." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
108. "People follow the latest fashion and think they’re being rebels. In reality they’re clueless conformists. Rebellion is essentially of the soul. It has nothing to do with outward appearance. Real rebels are inwardly oriented. They don’t like to attract the attention of masses." (The Ancient Sage) Click to tweet
109. "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
110. "If you don’t set your own values, other people will." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
111. "The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
112. "Humans are born free, but habituated by society to obey by default. Flex your freedom muscle by questioning instead of blindly following authority." (Justin Kan) Click to tweet
113. "The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a state founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution." (Ursula K. Le Guin) Click to tweet
114. "The world is so busy telling us who we should be, that we forget who we are." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
115. "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
116. "As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves." (Haruki Murakami) Click to tweet
117. "The tighter you cling to your current identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it." (James Clear) Click to tweet
118. "If they could they would not allow you to think for yourself."Click to tweet
119. "To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
120. "Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
121. "Nothing is yet in its true form." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
122. "Consult your conscience; rather than popular opinion." (Publius Syrus) Click to tweet
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123. "One has to be a teacher to oneself and a disciple of oneself; there is no authority, there is only understanding." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
124. "Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself." (Hermann Hesse) Click to tweet
125. "If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are." (Osho) Click to tweet
126. "Man has to create himself. He is not ready-made, he is not given. And the creation has to be a self-creation – nobody else can make you." (Osho) Click to tweet
127. "Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality." (Osho) Click to tweet
128. "Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for." (Byron Katie) Click to tweet
129. "Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
130. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." (Frederick Douglass) Click to tweet
131. "I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing." (Richard Feynman) Click to tweet
132. "The most important things in life are measured internally. You have an inner scoreboard. Playing to someone else’s scoreboard is easy. But when you look up at the end after winning, you’ll feel empty as you discover you won the wrong game. Play your own game." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
133. "You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
134. "Self-understanding is the scariest path, hence why only the brave will reach it."Click to tweet
135. "This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
136. "Exercise authority over yourself, or you will be made to bow to the authority of others. Be your own lord and master."Click to tweet
137. "A path of personal conviction offers great challenges and profound rewards. The journey may lead towards the tribe or away from it. The way of purpose is alive with a sense of intrinsic meaning. This is the rocky and uncrowded road of the self-responsible individual."Click to tweet
138. "Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people." (Huang Po) Click to tweet
139. "He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
140. "Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
141. "To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
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142. "Love and accept your nature; that is where the journey starts." (Osho) Click to tweet
143. "When you are dancing and singing with joy, with deep acceptance of yourself as you are, wisdom starts happening." (Osho) Click to tweet
144. "Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, you culture." (Osho) Click to tweet
145. "Knowing thyself is the only way to experience the meaning and significance of existence." (Osho) Click to tweet
146. "Being comfortable with who you are but knowing that you can improve. That is the balance." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
147. "Don’t dance around the perimeter of the person you want to be. Dive deeply and fully into it." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
148. "If i work at being good at being me and you work at being good at being you, then we will like each other for who we really are." (Simon Sinek) Click to tweet
149. "The journey isn’t so much about becoming someone. It’s about getting rid of everything that isn’t really you." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
150. "You can be happy with who you are and still want to be better. You can love your body and still want to improve it. You can appreciate your financial state and still want to improve it. Progress doesn’t require self-loathing. You can feel successful along the way." (James Clear) Click to tweet
151. "Listen to your heart more than the opinions of others. A decision made because of the opinions of others is one we often come to regret." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
152. "Strictly speaking, when someone does not like us, it is not our problem but theirs. This becomes a problem only if we let it bother us." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
153. "Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind." (Dodinsky) Click to tweet
154. "In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher." (Osho) Click to tweet
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155. "Don’t be afraid to shine bright, be joyful and honor the whole truth of who you are." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
156. "The minute you stop caring what others think, is the minute you start being yourself." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
157. "Never label yourself. The less you define yourself by, the less constraints to growth." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
158. "We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
159. "Own your truth and tell your story. It’s time to embrace your unique soul signature." (Panache Desai) Click to tweet
160. "Focus on being true to yourself and self-sufficient, and you’ll eventually find like-minded people." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
161. "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." (May Sarton) Click to tweet
162. "People tend to take pride in who they are. And that’s a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you’re proud of who you are, you won’t let that go when it’s necessary; you won’t step away from it." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
163. "I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and i was right." (Phyllis Diller) Click to tweet
164. "The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
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165. "Forgetting oneself is opening oneself." (Dogen) Click to tweet
166. "Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection. This is tao." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
167. "When the self is not occupied with its own becoming there is an unpremeditated clarity, a deep ecstasy." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
168. "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
169. "It’s easy to get distracted watching what everyone else is doing. Tend to your own fire." (Bob Goff) Click to tweet
170. "I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way i dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
171. "Rebellion is the fire, passing through which one gains freedom, individuality, integrity and only after that can one relax and be oneself." (Osho) Click to tweet
172. "The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage." (Osho) Click to tweet
173. "Aloneness is a flower blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive. It is the joy of being yourself. It is the joy of having your own space." (Osho) Click to tweet
174. "I’ve learned that there is nothing more consistent with unhappiness than spending your time in a way that doesn’t serve who you are." (Scott Dinsmore) Click to tweet
175. "The thicker your skin, the more original you can be, the better you will create, the more satisfied you will be." (Fateh Singh) Click to tweet
176. "A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else." (Criss Jami) Click to tweet
177. "How much time do you spend judging the choices of other people? Practically nothing. You’re too damn busy thinking about your own life. Guess what? Other people are the same. No one is paying attention. Just be yourself." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet
178. "Deceivers exploit fear and desire. A fearless contented person is very hard to fool."Click to tweet
179. "A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming." (Madeleine L’Engle) Click to tweet
180. "What if finding ourselves is not a destination but an ongoing process." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
181. "Be vulnerable. People will either love you for it, or not care at all." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
182. "We are constantly invited to be who we are." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
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183. "Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
184. "Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
185. "Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
186. "An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led." (Hermann Hesse) Click to tweet
187. "Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
188. "Worse than fear of failure is fear of criticism. People are gonna talk sh*t no matter what you do. You do nothing and you’re a loser. You do something and you care too much. Just do what you want and enjoy life." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
189. "Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about." (Osho) Click to tweet
190. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are." (Chögyam Trungpa) Click to tweet
191. "Rise to the level of your ideals, not the average of your environment."Click to tweet
192. "Do not let people’s opinions of you mold your destiny. Let unhappy people have their unhappy thoughts. Continue on your path courageously." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
193. "Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care of yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
194. "Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
195. "Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." (Osho) Click to tweet
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196. "You’ve got to keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet
197. "You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
198. "The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic. The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And, you know how to do that better than anybody because you love to do it." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
199. "Doing what everyone else thinks you should do is almost always a sure path to average." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
200. "The only person worth competing against is who you were yesterday." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
201. "When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
202. "Once you realize your only competition is yourself, you win." (Carlos Del Valle) Click to tweet
203. "Doing what everybody else is doing feels like the safest thing to do. But it’s also the most competitive, which makes it the riskiest." (Morgan Housel) Click to tweet
204. "You perform best when you don’t think about it, i.e. when you are not self-conscious. This is also called “being yourself.” You can be yourself only when there is no inner conflict or self-division. This usually happens when you are not self-conscious – when you let yourself go."Click to tweet
205. "If people around you don’t think what you’re doing is a bit strange, maybe it’s not strange enough." (Patrick Collison) Click to tweet
206. "At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your life’s task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
207. "If you are worried about what others might think then you will never really create anything." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
208. "Never be afraid of the qualities that set you apart and draw attention to you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
209. "If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them." (Noam Chomsky) Click to tweet
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210. "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet
211. "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
212. "The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But fortunately we are not apples, so we always have the option of getting up and moving as far away from the tree as we want." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
213. "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." (Edgar Allan Poe) Click to tweet
214. "Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being." (Osho) Click to tweet
215. "Be yourself and let others be themselves and this life, this planet, can become the lotus paradise here-now." (Osho) Click to tweet
216. "People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
217. "When you have something to say, silence is a lie." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
218. "There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, i go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; i have a reverence for individuality." (Clint Eastwood) Click to tweet
219. "There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough." (Alain de Botton) Click to tweet
220. "Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
221. "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
222. "As much as i live i shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them." (Orhan Pamuk) Click to tweet
223. "A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms." (Sensei Ogui) Click to tweet
224. "One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
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225. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
226. "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) Click to tweet
227. "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) Click to tweet
228. "If you change the way you behave for the sole purpose of being liked, you will probably end up hating the person you have become." (Thibaut) Click to tweet
229. "We are in a culture that demands authenticity from others… .then punishes them when their authenticity doesn’t conform to the norms of the culture." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
230. "Tension means you want to be something else which you are not." (Osho) Click to tweet
231. "You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable." (Osho) Click to tweet
232. "Listening so much to others and conforming our behavior to them, we slowly lose a sense of our uniqueness and the ability to think for ourselves. The only solution is to develop self-awareness and a superior understanding of the changes that occur in us in groups." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
233. "A contrarian isn’t one who always objects – that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
234. "The moment i figure out something is a waste of time, i leave immediately." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
235. "The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
236. "The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity." (Deepak Chopra) Click to tweet
237. "It is better for an exceptional individual to be alone (and in the company of great men of the past and present through their books, etc) than to be in the mediocrizing influence of those around him. A genius is nourished by his solitary rebellion against the ways of society."Click to tweet
238. "All great souls are rebellious at heart. He who is a conformist is doomed to mediocrity."Click to tweet
239. "It is only the man who walks alone that is able to reach the highest of heights. For he has come to see with pristine clarity that every possible influence from society and its people can only shrink his vision and narrow his stride." (Kapil Gupta) Click to tweet
240. "If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
241. "I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how i should have done it." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
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242. "It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
243. "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
244. "I’d rather be a failure at something i love than a success at something i hate. George f." (Burns) Click to tweet
245. "Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. Do what you can do. Then let it rest." (Neale Donald Walsch) Click to tweet
246. "If you’re not saying yes with enthusiasm to something just say no." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
247. "Yes, mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
248. "Never try too hard to make people like you. In fact, it doesn’t matter if people like you or not. Be your best self and you’ll attract the best people for you. This is the power of authenticity." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
249. "It is better to be inconsistent but authentic than being consistent but inauthentic."Click to tweet
250. "If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
2. "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
3. "When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
4. "The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself." (Rita Mae Brown) Click to tweet
5. "Existence wants you to be you." (Osho) Click to tweet
6. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." (Andre Gide) Click to tweet
7. "Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
8. "You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
9. "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else." (R. Buckminster Fuller) Click to tweet
10. "We are the ones we have been waiting for." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
11. "You change the world by being yourself." (Yoko Ono) Click to tweet
12. "What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
13. "He who obeys, does not listen to himself." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
14. "Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody." (Nike) Click to tweet
15. "Be in the world, but don’t let the world be in you. Love, and yet don’t be lost in it. Relate, and yet be alone, utterly alone. Know perfectly well that all relationship is a game: play the game and play it as beautifully as possible and as skillfully as possible." (Osho) Click to tweet
16. "If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world." (Elaine S. Dalton) Click to tweet
17. "Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions." (John Stuart Mill) Click to tweet
18. "Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself – exactly oneself and no one else." (Simone de Beauvoir) Click to tweet
19. "There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." (Ursula K. Le Guin) Click to tweet
20. "Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" (Charles Bukowski) Click to tweet
21. "The world just wants your authentic truth." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
22. "You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves." (Mooji) Click to tweet
23. "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
24. "The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
25. "Can you live completely without ambition, completely without ever comparing yourself with another?" (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
26. "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson) Click to tweet
27. "Do not live to satisfy the expectations of others." (Ichiro Kishimi) Click to tweet
28. "Be nobody’s darling; be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
29. "When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
30. "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
31. "When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people’s opinion, freer, more real." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
32. "Large groups are no place for smart people." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
33. "Just stick to your principles. And rest assured that, if you remain true to them, the same people who made fun of you will come to admire you." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
34. "When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
35. "Don’t let other people decide who you are." (Bob Goff) Click to tweet
36. "A rebel is the one who lives totally according to his own light and risks everything else for his ultimate value of freedom." (Osho) Click to tweet
37. "This above all: to thine own self be true." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet
38. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." (Coco Chanel) Click to tweet
39. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
40. "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) Click to tweet
41. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
42. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." (Kennedy) Click to tweet
43. "Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
44. "All i want to do is be more like me and be less like you." (Linkin Park) Click to tweet
45. "I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." (Mozart) Click to tweet
46. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet
47. "Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
48. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
49. "They laugh at me because i’m different; i laugh at them because they’re all the same." (Kurt Cobain) Click to tweet
50. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." (Tyrion Lannister) Click to tweet
51. "My philosophy is: it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what i am and i do what i do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." (Anthony Hopkins) Click to tweet
52. "One must know oneself. Even if it does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one’s life, and nothing is more proper." (Blaise Pascal) Click to tweet
53. "You were born god’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy." (Marian Wright Edelman) Click to tweet
54. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." (E.E Cummings) Click to tweet
55. "I wore black because i liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion – against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of god, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas." (Johnny Cash) Click to tweet
56. "I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live." (Socrates) Click to tweet
57. "Not till we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
58. "The superior man follows nobody else’s path." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
59. "Become who you are." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
60. "Conformity gets you nowhere." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
61. "Spontaneity is total sincerity." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
62. "Our own life has to be our message." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
63. "I’d rather be a freak than a clone." (Joanne Harris) Click to tweet
64. "Intuition is allergic to conformity." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
65. "Appear as you are, be as you appear." (Rumi) Click to tweet
66. "What the world craves is authenticity." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
67. "It is a waste of energy to follow anybody." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
68. "Stop letting the world keep score for you." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
69. "Train yourself to take nothing personally." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
70. "You are who you are when nobody’s watching." (Stephen Fry) Click to tweet
71. "Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." (Vladimir Nabokov) Click to tweet
72. "Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
73. "To lead others, one must find one’s own direction." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
74. "You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax." (Osho) Click to tweet
75. "We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
76. "Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness." (Allen Ginsberg) Click to tweet
77. "Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable." (Conor McGregor) Click to tweet
78. "I am not what happened to me, i am what i choose to become." (Carl Jung) Click to tweet
79. "So whatever you want to do, just do it… making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
80. "Accept right now that you are magnificent. Being your real, true, authentic self is what’s most awesome about you." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
81. "Keep being yourself inside you. Keep visualizing what you are aiming for in life. Be patient and know that you will get what you want one day." (Yoko Ono) Click to tweet
82. "It has often been said that a reformation should begin with each man reforming himself." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
83. "You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
84. "Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
85. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet
86. "You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
87. "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself." (Peter Thiel) Click to tweet
88. "If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
89. "When you are in your own lane there is no traffic." (Ashley France) Click to tweet
90. "Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible – then you’ll naturally have an impact." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
91. "“finding yourself” is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. “finding yourself” is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you." (Emily McDowell) Click to tweet
92. "I’m going to do what i want to do. I’m going to be who i really am. And i’m going to figure out what that is." (Stephen Chbosky) Click to tweet
93. "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there." (Gary Snyder) Click to tweet
94. "You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality." (Osho) Click to tweet
95. "I teach you rebellion! Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light." (Osho) Click to tweet
96. "You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
97. "Be the person your dog thinks you are." (Ricky Gervais) Click to tweet
98. "I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed." (Robert Frost) Click to tweet
99. "Only dead fish go with the flow." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
100. "This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic." (Terry Pratchett) Click to tweet
101. "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
102. "It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world." (Dolly Parton) Click to tweet
103. "If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
104. "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you." (Kurt Cobain) Click to tweet
105. "If you worry about your reputation you don’t deserve to have one." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
106. "The simplest means of procuring protection from other men is security of quiet solitude and withdrawal from the mass of people." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
107. "Only those who can accept their own annihilation can have the courage to be true individuals." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
108. "People follow the latest fashion and think they’re being rebels. In reality they’re clueless conformists. Rebellion is essentially of the soul. It has nothing to do with outward appearance. Real rebels are inwardly oriented. They don’t like to attract the attention of masses." (The Ancient Sage) Click to tweet
109. "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized." (David Goggins) Click to tweet
110. "If you don’t set your own values, other people will." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
111. "The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
112. "Humans are born free, but habituated by society to obey by default. Flex your freedom muscle by questioning instead of blindly following authority." (Justin Kan) Click to tweet
113. "The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a state founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution." (Ursula K. Le Guin) Click to tweet
114. "The world is so busy telling us who we should be, that we forget who we are." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
115. "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet
116. "As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves." (Haruki Murakami) Click to tweet
117. "The tighter you cling to your current identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it." (James Clear) Click to tweet
118. "If they could they would not allow you to think for yourself."Click to tweet
119. "To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
120. "Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
121. "Nothing is yet in its true form." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
122. "Consult your conscience; rather than popular opinion." (Publius Syrus) Click to tweet
123. "One has to be a teacher to oneself and a disciple of oneself; there is no authority, there is only understanding." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
124. "Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself." (Hermann Hesse) Click to tweet
125. "If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are." (Osho) Click to tweet
126. "Man has to create himself. He is not ready-made, he is not given. And the creation has to be a self-creation – nobody else can make you." (Osho) Click to tweet
127. "Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality." (Osho) Click to tweet
128. "Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for." (Byron Katie) Click to tweet
129. "Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
130. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." (Frederick Douglass) Click to tweet
131. "I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing." (Richard Feynman) Click to tweet
132. "The most important things in life are measured internally. You have an inner scoreboard. Playing to someone else’s scoreboard is easy. But when you look up at the end after winning, you’ll feel empty as you discover you won the wrong game. Play your own game." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
133. "You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
134. "Self-understanding is the scariest path, hence why only the brave will reach it."Click to tweet
135. "This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
136. "Exercise authority over yourself, or you will be made to bow to the authority of others. Be your own lord and master."Click to tweet
137. "A path of personal conviction offers great challenges and profound rewards. The journey may lead towards the tribe or away from it. The way of purpose is alive with a sense of intrinsic meaning. This is the rocky and uncrowded road of the self-responsible individual."Click to tweet
138. "Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people." (Huang Po) Click to tweet
139. "He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
140. "Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
141. "To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." (Thich Nhat Hanh) Click to tweet
142. "Love and accept your nature; that is where the journey starts." (Osho) Click to tweet
143. "When you are dancing and singing with joy, with deep acceptance of yourself as you are, wisdom starts happening." (Osho) Click to tweet
144. "Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, you culture." (Osho) Click to tweet
145. "Knowing thyself is the only way to experience the meaning and significance of existence." (Osho) Click to tweet
146. "Being comfortable with who you are but knowing that you can improve. That is the balance." (Bill Masur) Click to tweet
147. "Don’t dance around the perimeter of the person you want to be. Dive deeply and fully into it." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
148. "If i work at being good at being me and you work at being good at being you, then we will like each other for who we really are." (Simon Sinek) Click to tweet
149. "The journey isn’t so much about becoming someone. It’s about getting rid of everything that isn’t really you." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
150. "You can be happy with who you are and still want to be better. You can love your body and still want to improve it. You can appreciate your financial state and still want to improve it. Progress doesn’t require self-loathing. You can feel successful along the way." (James Clear) Click to tweet
151. "Listen to your heart more than the opinions of others. A decision made because of the opinions of others is one we often come to regret." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
152. "Strictly speaking, when someone does not like us, it is not our problem but theirs. This becomes a problem only if we let it bother us." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
153. "Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind." (Dodinsky) Click to tweet
154. "In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher." (Osho) Click to tweet
155. "Don’t be afraid to shine bright, be joyful and honor the whole truth of who you are." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
156. "The minute you stop caring what others think, is the minute you start being yourself." (Gabby Bernstein) Click to tweet
157. "Never label yourself. The less you define yourself by, the less constraints to growth." (Derek Sivers) Click to tweet
158. "We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are." (Fred Rogers) Click to tweet
159. "Own your truth and tell your story. It’s time to embrace your unique soul signature." (Panache Desai) Click to tweet
160. "Focus on being true to yourself and self-sufficient, and you’ll eventually find like-minded people." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
161. "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." (May Sarton) Click to tweet
162. "People tend to take pride in who they are. And that’s a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you’re proud of who you are, you won’t let that go when it’s necessary; you won’t step away from it." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
163. "I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and i was right." (Phyllis Diller) Click to tweet
164. "The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
165. "Forgetting oneself is opening oneself." (Dogen) Click to tweet
166. "Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection. This is tao." (Zhuangzi) Click to tweet
167. "When the self is not occupied with its own becoming there is an unpremeditated clarity, a deep ecstasy." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
168. "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
169. "It’s easy to get distracted watching what everyone else is doing. Tend to your own fire." (Bob Goff) Click to tweet
170. "I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way i dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
171. "Rebellion is the fire, passing through which one gains freedom, individuality, integrity and only after that can one relax and be oneself." (Osho) Click to tweet
172. "The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage." (Osho) Click to tweet
173. "Aloneness is a flower blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive. It is the joy of being yourself. It is the joy of having your own space." (Osho) Click to tweet
174. "I’ve learned that there is nothing more consistent with unhappiness than spending your time in a way that doesn’t serve who you are." (Scott Dinsmore) Click to tweet
175. "The thicker your skin, the more original you can be, the better you will create, the more satisfied you will be." (Fateh Singh) Click to tweet
176. "A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else." (Criss Jami) Click to tweet
177. "How much time do you spend judging the choices of other people? Practically nothing. You’re too damn busy thinking about your own life. Guess what? Other people are the same. No one is paying attention. Just be yourself." (Johnny Uzan) Click to tweet
178. "Deceivers exploit fear and desire. A fearless contented person is very hard to fool."Click to tweet
179. "A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming." (Madeleine L’Engle) Click to tweet
180. "What if finding ourselves is not a destination but an ongoing process." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
181. "Be vulnerable. People will either love you for it, or not care at all." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
182. "We are constantly invited to be who we are." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
183. "Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
184. "Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
185. "Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
186. "An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led." (Hermann Hesse) Click to tweet
187. "Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for." (Mark Manson) Click to tweet
188. "Worse than fear of failure is fear of criticism. People are gonna talk sh*t no matter what you do. You do nothing and you’re a loser. You do something and you care too much. Just do what you want and enjoy life." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
189. "Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about." (Osho) Click to tweet
190. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are." (Chögyam Trungpa) Click to tweet
191. "Rise to the level of your ideals, not the average of your environment."Click to tweet
192. "Do not let people’s opinions of you mold your destiny. Let unhappy people have their unhappy thoughts. Continue on your path courageously." (Haemin Sunim) Click to tweet
193. "Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care of yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
194. "Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
195. "Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." (Osho) Click to tweet
196. "You’ve got to keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet
197. "You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
198. "The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic. The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And, you know how to do that better than anybody because you love to do it." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
199. "Doing what everyone else thinks you should do is almost always a sure path to average." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
200. "The only person worth competing against is who you were yesterday." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
201. "When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
202. "Once you realize your only competition is yourself, you win." (Carlos Del Valle) Click to tweet
203. "Doing what everybody else is doing feels like the safest thing to do. But it’s also the most competitive, which makes it the riskiest." (Morgan Housel) Click to tweet
204. "You perform best when you don’t think about it, i.e. when you are not self-conscious. This is also called “being yourself.” You can be yourself only when there is no inner conflict or self-division. This usually happens when you are not self-conscious – when you let yourself go."Click to tweet
205. "If people around you don’t think what you’re doing is a bit strange, maybe it’s not strange enough." (Patrick Collison) Click to tweet
206. "At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your life’s task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
207. "If you are worried about what others might think then you will never really create anything." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
208. "Never be afraid of the qualities that set you apart and draw attention to you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
209. "If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them." (Noam Chomsky) Click to tweet
210. "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet
211. "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
212. "The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But fortunately we are not apples, so we always have the option of getting up and moving as far away from the tree as we want." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
213. "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." (Edgar Allan Poe) Click to tweet
214. "Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being." (Osho) Click to tweet
215. "Be yourself and let others be themselves and this life, this planet, can become the lotus paradise here-now." (Osho) Click to tweet
216. "People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be." (Iyanla Vanzant) Click to tweet
217. "When you have something to say, silence is a lie." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
218. "There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, i go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; i have a reverence for individuality." (Clint Eastwood) Click to tweet
219. "There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough." (Alain de Botton) Click to tweet
220. "Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
221. "Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else." (David Foster Wallace) Click to tweet
222. "As much as i live i shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them." (Orhan Pamuk) Click to tweet
223. "A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms." (Sensei Ogui) Click to tweet
224. "One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
225. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
226. "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) Click to tweet
227. "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) Click to tweet
228. "If you change the way you behave for the sole purpose of being liked, you will probably end up hating the person you have become." (Thibaut) Click to tweet
229. "We are in a culture that demands authenticity from others… .then punishes them when their authenticity doesn’t conform to the norms of the culture." (Neil Strauss) Click to tweet
230. "Tension means you want to be something else which you are not." (Osho) Click to tweet
231. "You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable." (Osho) Click to tweet
232. "Listening so much to others and conforming our behavior to them, we slowly lose a sense of our uniqueness and the ability to think for ourselves. The only solution is to develop self-awareness and a superior understanding of the changes that occur in us in groups." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet
233. "A contrarian isn’t one who always objects – that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
234. "The moment i figure out something is a waste of time, i leave immediately." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
235. "The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
236. "The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity." (Deepak Chopra) Click to tweet
237. "It is better for an exceptional individual to be alone (and in the company of great men of the past and present through their books, etc) than to be in the mediocrizing influence of those around him. A genius is nourished by his solitary rebellion against the ways of society."Click to tweet
238. "All great souls are rebellious at heart. He who is a conformist is doomed to mediocrity."Click to tweet
239. "It is only the man who walks alone that is able to reach the highest of heights. For he has come to see with pristine clarity that every possible influence from society and its people can only shrink his vision and narrow his stride." (Kapil Gupta) Click to tweet
240. "If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." (Epictetus) Click to tweet
241. "I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how i should have done it." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
242. "It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
243. "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
244. "I’d rather be a failure at something i love than a success at something i hate. George f." (Burns) Click to tweet
245. "Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. Do what you can do. Then let it rest." (Neale Donald Walsch) Click to tweet
246. "If you’re not saying yes with enthusiasm to something just say no." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
247. "Yes, mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
248. "Never try too hard to make people like you. In fact, it doesn’t matter if people like you or not. Be your best self and you’ll attract the best people for you. This is the power of authenticity." (Ed Latimore) Click to tweet
249. "It is better to be inconsistent but authentic than being consistent but inauthentic."Click to tweet
250. "If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards." (Jordan Peterson) Click to tweet
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