Just Be Youself-Inspiration Quotes

I'm a big fan of great quotes. It's reassuring to know that someone, somewhere, had just the right thing to say to make you feel a little bit better inside. The right quote can make you feel just a little less alone. Sometimes, I feel that's all most of us really need...to feel less alone.

Below you will find some of my favorite quotes about being who you are and accepting others as they are. It's a simple concept, but the world seems to struggle greatly with it.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The more one judges, the less one loves.~ Honore de Balzac

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

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull

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

Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.  ~Harvey Fierstein

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.  ~Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles.  Why should we all dress after the same fashion?  The frost never paints my windows twice alike.  ~Lydia Maria Child

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.  ~Anatole France

The most damaging phrase in the language is:  "It's always been done that way."  ~Grace Hopper

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.  ~Albert Einstein

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  ~Anaïs Nin