The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. – Bryant H. McGill
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. – Alia Bhatt
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. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. – Bruce Lee
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! – Bill Rancic
Be yourself. And if you’re not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you. – Brody Jenner
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen
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. – Brooke Burke
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. – Al Roker
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so. – B. B. King
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. – Andrej Pejic
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. – Aubrey Peeples
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. – Anderson Cooper
You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself. – Ashley Tisdale
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.’ – Carson Kressley
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. – Alan Alda
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. – Eddie Redmayne
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else. – Christina Perri
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. – Marta Kristen
Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don’t believe what you see, don’t believe all this marketing. – Daphne Guinness
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. – Dave Pelzer
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. – Christina Grimmie
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to ‘carry it off.’ – Donald Rumsfeld
