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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Be Yourself Quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3. The keynote of Polonius’ famous speech to Laertes who is about to depart for Paris are these final words of wisdom. He counsels his son to be true to himself, which means he cannot be false to anyone else. One cannot overlook the deep irony in Polonius’ oft quoted exercise in sagacity and moral advice. For Polonius is a hypocrite who doesn’t practice what he preaches. After offering his blessing to Laertes to go to Paris, the deceitful Polonius sends someone to spy on him, he spies on daughter Ophelia and Hamlet, and he interferes in Ophelia’s romantic relationship with Hamlet, which contributes to her taking her life.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Be yourself. People don’t have to like you, and you don’t have to care.

– Unknown

One of the secrets of life is to be honestly who you are. Who others want you to be, who you used to be, and who you may some day become…these are fantasies. To be honestly who you are is to give up your illusions and face today with courage.

– Bill Purdin

Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

– Oprah Winfrey

Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Snoopy.

The heart of all creativity is the awakening and flowering of individuality. The mystery and magic of being an individual is to live life in response to the deep call within – the call to become who we were dreamed to be.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

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

– Guy Finley

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.

– Hailee Steinfeld

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.

– Hayden Panettiere

‘Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.

– Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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.

– Henry Rollins

Be yourself, let you come through.

– Jonathan Davis

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.

– James Dean

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.

– Henrik Lundqvist

Remember to always be yourself.

– Joss Whedon

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.

– Hope Solo

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.

– Grace Jones

Always be yourself… unless you suck.

– Joss Whedon

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

– Joss Whedon

I think you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

– John Wooden

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

– Ingrid Bergman

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.

– Joel Madden

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.

– Adam DeVine

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.

– Andrew Mason

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

– J. B. Priestley

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

– Bellamy Young

Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

– Brett Hull

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

– Blac Chyna

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.

– Ben Quayle

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