Here is some encouragement to be your authentic self:
1. “There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs
2. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – Will Durant
3. “Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.” – Shia LaBeouf
4. “If I had listened to the critics, I’d have died drunk in the gutter.” – Anton Chekhov
5. “I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m will to bet on, it’s myself.” – Beyonce
6. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
7. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
9. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
10. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
11. “Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.” Anonymous
12. “When you show up authentic, you create the space for others to do the same. Walk in your truth.” – Anonymous
13. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
14. “Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself.” – Bella Thorne
15. “Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.” – Alan Cohen
16. “Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” – Eckhart Tolle
17. “If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” – Carl Lewis
18. “Do something uniques that only you and no one else in the world can do.” – Robert Barry
19. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck
20. “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
21. “What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn’t worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world.” – Paul Graham
22. “Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
23. “Don’t be afraid to be a fool.” – Stephen Colbert
24. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp
25. “Be true to yourself – and keep things simple. People complicate things.” – Jay Z
26. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
27. “Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
28. “I can be a better me than anyone can.” – Diana Ross
29. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.” – Tyra Banks
30. “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” – Andre Berthiaume
31. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” – May Sarton
32. “Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
33. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
34. “Our entire life… consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” – Jean Anouilh
35. “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde
36. “When you truly don’t care what anyone thinks of you, you have reached a dangerously awesome level of freedom.” – Anonymous
37. “Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.” – Anonymous
38. “I’ve had enough of this life of waiting for someone’s permission.” – Frank Lee
39. “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason
40. “We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.” – Michelle Cruz-Rosado
41. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
42. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” – Jodi Picoult
43. “Be yourself. People don’t have to like you, and you don’t have to care.” – Anonymous
44. “No one is you and that is your power.” – Anonymous
45. “Originality is… a by-product of sincerity.” – Marianne Moore
46. “Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that you are.” – Mandy Hale
47. “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliott
48. “Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner.” – Lao Tzu
49. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
50. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“Learn to be happy being yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” -Unknown Author
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