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Identity Quotes

  • Oct 1, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 27, 2023

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Katherine Hepburn


Be yourself, but always your better self.

Karl G Maeser


Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.



To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Lao Tzu


You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

Dr Seuss


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland


The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Steve Jobs


No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Buckminster Fuller


When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval.

Epictetus


Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody.

Nike


Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself.

Bella Thorne


Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F Kennedy


This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e e cummings


Consult your conscience; rather than popular opinion.

Pubilius Syrus


When you are in your own lane there is no traffic.

Ashley France


Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse


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


Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Dolly Parton


Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Henri Frederic Amiel


If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Goethe


Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Neil Gaiman


Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.



Ride your own wave.

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