100+ Inspirational 'Be Yourself' Quotes to Empower Your Authenticity

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

- Bernard M. Baruch

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."

- John Grisham

"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."

- Lady Gaga

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."

- Piglet

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me."

- Michelle Obama

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

- Rita Mae Brown

"You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!"

- Lady Gaga

"Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive."

- Gerard Way

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

- Jim Morrison

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

- Walt Whitman

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"Our first and last love is self-love."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- Andre Gide

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

- Rumi

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

"I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

- Maya Angelou

"There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am."

- Anaïs Nin

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do."

- Brené Brown

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

"Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first."

- Beau Taplin

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."

- Rumi

"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."

- Eartha Kitt

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."

- Bianca Sparacino

"In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way."

- Ben Hopkins

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Self-love isn't selfish; it's self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."

- Queen Latifah

"The universe took its time on you."

- Rupi Kaur

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

- Rumi

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."

- Max Ehrmann

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."

- Ain Eineziz

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."

- Lizzo

"I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."

- Andie MacDowell

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that."

- Gisele Bundchen

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"All love begins with the love within."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Loving yourself isn't vanity; it's sanity."

- Katrina Mayer

"You're not your mistakes; they are what you did, not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they're destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life."

- Anne Hathaway

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable."

- M. Scott Peck

"When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better."

- Solange Knowles

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

"For me, self-love is like, 'Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?' Not: 'Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?' But: 'Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?' And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good."

- Kerry Washington

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."

- Hailee Steinfeld

"If you wish to be loved, love."

- Hecaton of Rhodes

"Love. Laugh. And live it up!"

- Christie Brinkley

"Beauty comes from a life well lived"

- Jennifer Garner

"The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

- Jane Travis

"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."

- Frank Zappa

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"Keep watering yourself. You're growing."

- E.Russell

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

- Voltaire

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."

- Allen Ginsberg

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"Every exit is an entrance to someplace else."

- Patti LaBelle

"It is interesting how often we can't see all the ways in which we are being strong."

- Lena Dunham

"And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’"

- Nayyirah Waheed

"I’m safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

"I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."

- Emma Stone

"I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."

- Brian Tracy

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

"All lights turned off can be turned on."

- Noah Kahan

"Plant hope in your heart's wounds."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."

"Be gentle with yourself; you're doing the best you can."

"I am becoming the best version of myself, one day at a time."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"I am learning, growing, and thriving every day."

"You don't have to have it all figured out to start healing."

"Healing begins with the moment you accept what is."

"Healing comes in waves, and maybe today the wave hits hard. But you'll keep swimming."

"When you love yourself, you glow from within."

"The way you speak to yourself matters."

"I am proud of my journey and excited for what's to come."

"I release negative thoughts and welcome positivity into my life."

"I honor the progress I have made, no matter how small."

"I am worthy of love, kindness, and compassion."

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life."

"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means it no longer controls your life."

"Your scars are a testament to your strength."

"Take a deep breath and remember: you've survived 100% of your worst days so far."

"Time alone doesn't heal wounds; the effort to heal does."

"Healing is a journey, not a destination."

"I am healing with every breath I take."

"I release what no longer serves me and welcome peace."

"I am stronger than the challenges I face."

"My healing journey is unique, and I honor my own pace."

"Every day is a chance to begin again."

"Fall in love with taking care of yourself: mind, body, and soul."

"Your pain is valid, but it doesn't define you."

"Healing doesn't mean forgetting; it means choosing peace over pain."

"Trust the process of healing. It takes time, but it's worth it."

"You're allowed to outgrow people, places, and even versions of yourself."

"Be your own reason to smile."

"Healing is not linear. It's okay to have good days and bad days."

"It's okay to be a glowstick; sometimes we need to break before we shine."

"Your vibe attracts your tribe, so love yourself first."

"You are enough, just as you are."

"Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time."

"You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to others."